Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission

ISBN 10: 1451470495 / ISBN 13: 9781451470499

Verlag: Fortress Press, 2014

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That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is well recognized. The linchpin role played in those efforts by the Great Commissionthe risen Christs command to go into all the world and teach all nationshas more often been observed than analyzed, however. With the rise of European colonialism, the Great Commission was suddenly taken up with an eschatological urgency, often explicit in the founding statements of missionary societies; the differentiation of teachers and nations waiting to be taught proved a ready-made sacred sanction for the racialized and androcentric logics of conquest and civilization.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Jayachitra Lalitha is associate professor of New Testament, dean of women's studies, and coordinator of the Church Women Centre of theTamilnadu Theological Seminary, India. She co-chairs the World Christianity Group of the American Academy of Religion. She is coeditor ofEvangelical Postcolonial Conversations: Global Awakenings in Theology and Praxis (2014).

Mitzi J. Smith is associate professor of New Testament and early Christian studies at Ashland Theological Seminary, Detroit. She has contributed to The Women"s Bible Commentary, Onesimus Our Brother (Fortress Press, 2012), and True to Our Native Land (Fortress Press, 2007), and written The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles (2011).

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Titel: Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the ...
Verlag: Fortress Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New