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Author: A. Tinsley
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-08-20
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1137326158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten from an African American perspective, this work depicts the presentation of the gospel message to the first-century community of Colossae, their reception of it comparative to the presentation and reception of the same to the enslaved Africans of North America particularly in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Author: Kirsteen Kim
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-04-28
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 0198831722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains more than 40 articles by experts from different disciplinary and ecclesial perspectives, who are from all continents. It not only offers a broad overview of key approaches and issues in mission studies but it also highlights current trends and suggests future developments. The Handbook builds on renewed interest in mission studies this century generated by recent key statements on mission from ecumenical, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox sources, and by a spate of academic works on the topic. Western church leaders now apply insights from foreign missions (such as, inculturation, liberation, interfaith work, and power encounter) to today's multicultural societies. Meanwhile, there are new initiatives in mission from the Majority World, where most Christians live, so that sending is not only 'from the west to the rest' but 'from everywhere to everywhere'. Therefore, this volume aims to reflect the voices of the receivers of mission as well as its protagonists and to raise awareness of new movements. In a time of growing recognition of 'religions' more generally, this work examines and theorizes the missional dimensions of the world's largest religion: its agendas, growth, outreach, role in public life, effect on cultures, relevance for development, and its approaches to other communities.
Author: Steed Vernyl Davidson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 900435767X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the legacies of European imperialism, Steed Vernyl Davidson traces how the Bible reflects strong affinities with empire and provides on-going justifications for empire and concentrations of power. Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective traces the evolution of the Bible from its production in empires of antiquity to its supportive role in the development of modern imperialism. The work also engages the ambiguities of the Bible as anti-imperial tool. Set within an examination of postcolonial studies as a revolutionary and revisionary discourse, this work presses for a more vigorous postcolonializing of the Bible in Biblical Studies. A description of the contemporary features and manifestation of empire forms the context within which further exploration of postcolonial biblical critical work can take place. Following an assessment of previous work in the field, the challenges of intersectional work with queer studies, terrorism studies, technology, and ecological studies are laid out as future tasks
Author: Esau McCaulley
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2024-08-06
Total Pages: 803
ISBN-13: 0830818294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this one-volume commentary, a multiethnic team of scholars holding orthodox Christian beliefs brings exegetical expertise coupled with a unique interpretive lens to illuminate the ways social location and biblical interpretation work together. These diverse scholars offer a better vantage point for both the academy and the church.
Author: Christina Harker
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2018-02-02
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 3161550668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this work, Christina Harker deconstructs the prevailing treatment of the New Testament as anti-imperial by contextualizing both New Testament scholarship and the Galatian experience within imperialist discourses that survived the dissolution of conventional empires in the twentieth century. She critiques simplistic treatments of empire as post-imperial (that is, replicating patterns of imperialist ideology, albeit unwittingly). To solve the problem, a new interpretation of Galatians is proposed that reworks and complicates the portrait of the Galatians themselves, rather than Paul, within what then emerges as a diverse social world peopled by complex individuals with heterogeneous social and cultural identities. The author is thus able to show how New Testament scholars who rehabilitate the Bible and Paul as anti-empire perpetuate the same imperialist modes of interpretation they seek to repudiate.
Author: Elsa Tamez
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0814682006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume takes a closer look at three New Testament letters. In the analysis of Philippians, Elsa Tamez endeavors to utilize non-patriarchal, inclusive language, which helps us to see the contents of the letter with different eyes. And finally, taking into account historical, structural, and rhetorical dimensions of Philemon." -- Inside cover
Author: Jin Young Choi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1137526106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJin Young Choi rereads discipleship in the Gospel of Mark from a postcolonial feminist perspective, developing an Asian and Asian American hermeneutics of phronesis. Colonized subjects perceive Jesus' body as phantasmic. Discipleship means embodying the mystery of this body while engaging with invisible, placeless and voiceless others.
Author: Janice Capel Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-12-27
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 0567674630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide introduces readers to key issues in the interpretation and reception of Colossians. Anderson first explores the issue of Pauline authorship. She challenges readers to reflect on why the question of authorship has dominated scholarship as well as why and how interpreters create “stories” about the letter. Second, Anderson examines rhetoric and context. She asks readers to consider how the letter constructs and seeks to persuade its addressees past and present. She surveys several pictures of the first audience and “opponents.” Finally, Anderson delves into the functions of the Colossian household code, its reception, and the ethics of interpretation.
Author: Angeline M.G. Song
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1137543922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is grounded in a theorization of the author's personal story including growing up as a female adoptee of a single parent in a patriarchal context, and current material context as an immigrant in New Zealand.
Author: C. Carvalhaes
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-06-10
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 1137508272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars from different fields of knowledge and many places across the globe to introduce/expand the dialogue between the field of liturgy and postcolonial/decolonial thinking. Connecting main themes in both fields, this book shows what is at stake in this dialectical scholarship.
