This is a progressive Christian approach to soteriology and missiology in a global, postcolonial context. Much of the history of mission has been interlaced with imperial structures. Often the colonial and economic impulses of the colonial powers overshadow some of the counter-imperial tendencies of biblical texts and ecclesial communities. Evangelical missionary theologies have led to cultural genocide. These missionary practices have been heavily critiqued in the last few decades. Christian progressives have been in the forefront of the critique of mission, but have often responded in ways that reject the of mission of the word, instead highlighting a mission focused on developmental concerns that obscures the Christian content but continues to push Western capitalist structures into 'developing' postcolonial societies. Instead, this book proposes an integration of gospel and culture. It aims to steer a third course towards an integration of the knowledge and treasures, the losses and laments of Christianities forged in colonizing and colonized societies. Proposing that these Christianities are more alike than different, and in need of each other for reconciliation of communities facing the ecological and economic collapse at the limits of what the planet can carry.
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Offers a progressive Christian approach to soteriology and missiology in a global, postcolonial context. This book proposes an integration of gospel and culture. It aims to steer a third course towards an integration of the knowledge and treasures, the losses and laments of Christianities forged in colonizing and colonized societies.
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1. Method to the Missionary Madness; 2. Creations: Telling Time and Place Migrations; 3. Boniface's Mission Don't Mess with the Missionary Clan: The Colensos and the Zulus; 4. We Must Give Ourselves to Voyaging - Regifting The Theological Present; 5. Departures: A Harvest of Tools for Interpreters of Cross-contextual Encounters...
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This book makes a significant contribution to a disparate but slowly coalescing 'field'. What are we to make of 'mission' in a thoroughly postcolonial world, particularly when 'the colonies' are talking back? Marion Grau's contribution is significant in that it refuses to turn away from the 'mission' terrain, as many progressive scholars have, thereby surrendering the field to conservative voices. Instead she identifies the mutiplicity of borders and boundaries that constitute the postcolony and then explores what it means to 'do theology', progressively, across this disputed territory.
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A progressive Christian approach to soteriology and missiology in a global, postcolonial context.
Progressive, postcolonial, and constructive approach to soteriology and mission in a global context

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ISBN
9780567116192
Publisert
2011-06-30
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Vendor
T.& T.Clark Ltd
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
304

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Biographical note

Marion Grau is the Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a member of the Graduate Theological Union. She is the co-editor with Rosemary Radford Ruerther of Interpreting Post-Modernity: Responses to Radical Orthodoxy. Her essays have appeared in Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War, Postcolonialism and Theology, and Crosscurrents.