Teaching all nations
Subtitle: interrogating the Matthean Great Commission
By: Mitzi J. Smith and Jayachitra Lalitha, editors
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781451470499
Subjects: Great Commission (Bible); Theory; History; Missions; Postcolonialism
Description: That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion in the 19th and 20th centuries is well recognized. The linchpin role played in those efforts by the "Great Commission"--The risen Christ's command to "go into all the world" and "teach all nations"--has 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Colonial mission and the Great Commission in Africa  -- Beatrice Okyere-Manu; title: Examining the promulgation and impact of the Great Commission in the Caribbean, 1492-1970 : a historical analysis  -- Dave Gosse; title: US colonial mission to African slaves : catechizing Black souls, traumatizing the Black psychē  -- Mitzi J. Smith; title: The Great Commission : a postcolonial Dalit feminist inquiry  -- Jayachitra Lalitha; title: Privilege but no power : women in the gospel of Matthew and nineteenth-century African American women missionaries through a postcolonial lens  -- Lynne St. Clair Darden; title: 'Knowing more than is good for one' : a womanist interrogation of the Matthean Great Commission  -- Mitzi J. Smith; title: Images of Jesus in advancing the Great Commission  -- Sheila F. Winborne; title: The Great Commission in the face of suffering as "minjung"  -- Michelle Sungshin Lim; title: Children's agency and Edinburgh 2010 : the Great Commission or a greater omission?  -- Rohan P. Gideon; title: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission for US Christian education : reclaiming Jesus' kingdom of God message for the church  -- Karen D. Crozier; title: Beginning again : rethinking Christian education in light of the Great Commission  -- Anthony G. Reddie; title: Christian moral education and the Great Commission in an African context  -- Lord Elorm-Donkor; title: A United States inner-city oriented Great Commission ; title: MarShondra Scott Lawrence --; title: The Great Commission's impact on a short-term missionary and lay leader in the Church of God in Christ -- June C. Rivers.