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Record Nr.

UNINA9910523786503321

Autore

Koshy Sarosh

Titolo

Beyond Missio Dei : Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness / / by Sarosh Koshy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030820688

9783030820671

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 pages)

Collana

Postcolonialism and Religions, , 2946-2320

Disciplina

266.001

Soggetti

Theology

Philosophy

Postcolonialism

Christian Theology

Postcolonial Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1: Introduction: in search of signposts toward a new theological paradigm -- 2: Job, the joban tradition, and the status-quoist nature of mission -- 3: Discernments from the joban tradition: theoretical context and the mission imperative -- 4: Contemporary theological articulations in mission theology and missio dei -- 5: Beyond missio dei: theological resources for the journey -- 6: Witness of god and the risk of proclamation -- 7: Conclusion: behold the marturion dei, witness courageously, and have life abundantly.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Sarosh Koshy strives to go beyond the mission model of Christianity that emerged alongside and within the colonial enterprise and ethos since the sixteenth century. Rather than denounce the inheritance of the mission movement that transformed both the church and world in innumerable ways, it is a simultaneous expression of appreciation for this precious heritage, and an attempt to do justice by it through a yearning quest for relevant paradigms of Christian engagement. Indeed, there is an intense tension within this book, and in fact a twin tension at that. The tension is between those seeking to



keep the current mission paradigm alive out of habit or as a self-serving device, thus corrupting and withering away a bequeathal that essentially set free the voluntary/independent spirit of Christian individuals and their intentional collectives from both the ecclesiastical and political authorities. On the other side are those who enlist mission both as a subsequent activity and as a basis to pursue innocuous, and at times apparently heroic options that would seemingly satisfy a supposed missional mandatory. This work enlists postcolonial and poststructuralist resources pedagogically, to teach of mission, missiology, World Christianity, and intercultural theology. .