
Teaching All Nations
Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission
Fortress Press,U.S.
Published on 1. May 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4514-7049-9 (ISBN)
Description
That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion. The role played in those efforts by the Great Commission the risen Christs command to teach all nations has more often been observed than analyzed. 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4514-7049-9 (9781451470499)
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