Beyond missio dei : contesting mission, rethinking witness / / Sarosh Koshy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910523786503321
• Autore: Koshy Sarosh
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9783030820688; 9783030820671
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 pages)
• Collana: Postcolonialism and religions
• Disciplina: 266.001
• Soggetti: Missions - Theory; Postcolonialism; Theology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Beyond Missio Dei -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: In Search of Signposts Toward A New Theological Paradigm -- 1.1 Arguments, Definitions, and the Proposal That Defines This Quest -- 1.2 Sustaining and Advancing the Christian Faith Tradition -- 1.3 Problematizing the System of Dual Conversions -- 1.3.1 Heeding the Call of the Wholly Other, by Regarding Every Other -- 1.4 Unavoidability of Violence, Violation, and Discrimination, as the Source of Sin and Corruption -- 1.5 Proclamation That in Itself Is the Call to Discipleship -- 1.6 Textuality of Everything in the Human Realm -- 1.7 Current Paradigm of Mission and Its Discontents -- 1.8 Resources That Lead Us Beyond Missio Dei -- 1.9 Sola Fructus-Fruits Alone: The Unstated End of the Protestant Solas -- References -- Chapter 2: Job, the Joban Tradition, and the Status-Quoist Nature of Mission -- 2.1 Job and the Joban Tradition -- 2.1.1 Eschatological Visions and Limited Teleologies -- 2.1.2 Tame and Traitorous Standpoints: Inhabiting Different Locations on the Same Text -- 2.1.3 Missional Charity and Solidarity: Considering Privilege and Disprivilege As Mutually Independent -- 2.1.4 Resisting Temptations of Complete Resolution ; and Final Peace -- References -- Chapter 3: Discernments from the Joban Tradition: Theoretical Context and the Mission Imperative -- 3.1 Foreclosure, Denegation, and the Imperative of Civilizing Mission -- 3.1.1 Christian Efforts at Foreclosure and Denegation -- 3.1.1.1 Delineating All of Christian Life as Mission and Missionary -- 3.1.2 From Ur to Empty Tomb: The Unending Destruction of Essence -- 3.2 The Materialist Predication of the Subject -- 3.3 The Question of Full-Presence of the Self and God in Human Speech -- 3.3.1 The Disruption of Presence.; 3.3.2 Possibility of Presence Only Within the Matrix of Critical Pondering and Yearning -- 3.4 The Source of Universality and Uniqueness -- 3.5 Sojourning between a Pair of Ellipses and on a Bridge with Unsecured Towers -- References -- Chapter 4: Contemporary Theological Articulations in Mission Theology and Missio Dei -- 4.1 A Retrojective Paradigm that Refuses Shifting -- 4.2 Seeking to Shift the Paradigm of Mission, Yet Reinforcing It -- 4.2.1 Modern Missionary Movement and Its Shortcomings -- 4.2.2 Scriptural and Theological Basis for Mission -- 4.2.3 Eschatology and Teleology -- 4.3 Saving Missio Dei from Accidental Secular Authorities -- 4.4 Saturating the Empty Tomb and Turning It into a Mausoleum -- 4.5 Seeking a Progressive Theology of Mission for the Postcolony -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Beyond Missio Dei: Theological Resources for the Journey -- 5.1 The Messiah Who Abrogates Messianism -- 5.2 Repentance: Renouncing Current Witness and Embracing a New One -- 5.3 Counter-Apocalyptic Witness and Relational Becoming -- 5.4 "Do this in Remembrance of Me"-Witness as Eucharistic Living -- 5.5 Substitutionary Atonement that Prevents any Theological Response -- 5.5.1 Ontological Difference Instituted by the Concept of Human Resource Management -- 5.6 Constructedness of all Religions, and the Witness of God and Christians -- 5.6.1 Relativization of Religions -- 5.6.2 Witness: Not Posturing to Leap, But Always Already Leaping -- 5.6.3 Jesus sans Life, Barth sans Barmen -- 5.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Witness of God and the Risk of Proclamation -- 6.1 Matthew's Manifesto on Becoming Witnesses and Living Reflexively -- 6.1.1 Turn and Become like Children: Begin Living without Eschatological Missions -- 6.1.2 Making Disciples, Baptizing, and Teaching -- 6.2 Seize the Miracles and Seek Resurrection.; 6.3 Law Versus Faith: "Justification by Faith" Reimagined -- 6.4 Marturion Dei and the Marturia of the Disciples -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Behold the Marturion Dei, Witness Courageously, and Have Life Abundantly -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.