Missiological Engagements
Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission
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Missiological Engagements
Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission
About This Book
Yes, White people can be saved. In God's redemptive plan, that goes without saying. But what about the reality of white normativity? This idea and way of being in the world has been parasitically joined to Christianity, and this is the ground of many of our problems today. It is time to redouble the efforts of the church and its institutions to muster well-informed, gospel-based initiatives to fight racialized injustice and overcome the heresy of whiteness.Written by a world-class roster of scholars, Can "White" People Be Saved? develops language to describe the current realities of race and racism. It challenges evangelical Christianity in particular to think more critically and constructively about race, ethnicity, migration, and mission in relation to white supremacy.Historical and contemporary perspectives from Africa and the African diaspora prompt fresh theological and missiological questions about place and identity. Native American and Latinx experiences of colonialism, migration, and hybridity inspire theologies and practices of shalom. And Asian and Asian American experiences of ethnicity and class generate transnational resources for responding to the challenge of systemic injustice. With their call for practical resistance to the Western whiteness project, the perspectives in this volume can revitalize a vision of racial justice and peace in the body of Christ.Missiological Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges church, academy, and society.
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Introduction: Race and Missiology in Glocal Perspective
Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Race and Place at the Dawn of Modernity
- Can White People Be Saved?
- Decolonizing Salvation
- Race and the Colonial Enterprise
- Christian Debates on Race, Theology, and Mission in India
- Ambivalent Modalities
- Race and Mission to Latin America
- Siempre Lo Mismo
- Constructing Race in Puerto Rico
- Race in North America Between and Beyond Black-and-White
- The End of “Mission”
- Community, Mission, and Race
- “The Spirit of God Was Hovering over the Waters”
- Scriptural Reconsiderations and Ethnoracial Hermeneutics
- Intercultural Communication Skills for a Missiology of Interdependent Mutuality
- “Humbled Among the Nations”
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- List of Contributors
- Subject Index
- Scripture Index
- Praise for Can “White” People be Saved?
- About the Editors
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