“[S]ome Maori referred to themselves as ‘Jews’ rather than Christians,” states Huie-Jolly (Sugirtharajah, 224), because of the binarism of Jesus’ Sonship’s consistency with imperial domination. The Maori prefer to refer to themselves—as Israel did—as “‘the chosen people’” (Ibid., 231). I find this fascinating because Christians today view themselves as God’s chosen people, just as Israel did; however, we see no issue of Jesus’ Sonship being a binarism creating an “other” and yet it does, especially for those people who already feel oppressed by other people groups. How careful we must be as Christians not to come across as being superior or creating the binarism of “other”!
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