Living Postcolonial Anglicanism
Prospects for a Polycentric Anglican Communion
T&T Clark (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2025
280 pages
978-1-9787-6589-4 (ISBN)
Description
With contributions from Anglican scholars from across the worldwide Anglican Communion, this volume reimagines the Anglican Communion as a polycentric and multivocal community serving God's mission.
The Anglican Communion faces many challenges and opportunities as its primary demographic continues to shift to the Global South, and its English and Western cultural and ecclesiological hegemony is increasingly called into question. As a global family of churches, the Anglican Communion has to explore new relationships, power dynamics, and ecclesiological practices as it lives into a postcolonial, multivocal, and polycentric Communion. This hopeful anthology offers theological and ecclesiological analyses, critical reflections on matters of justice and Anglicanism's colonial legacy, as well as missional, and pastoral possibilities for a postcolonial Anglican Communion.
The Anglican Communion faces many challenges and opportunities as its primary demographic continues to shift to the Global South, and its English and Western cultural and ecclesiological hegemony is increasingly called into question. As a global family of churches, the Anglican Communion has to explore new relationships, power dynamics, and ecclesiological practices as it lives into a postcolonial, multivocal, and polycentric Communion. This hopeful anthology offers theological and ecclesiological analyses, critical reflections on matters of justice and Anglicanism's colonial legacy, as well as missional, and pastoral possibilities for a postcolonial Anglican Communion.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-6589-4 (9781978765894)
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Kwok Pui-Lan | Ian T. Douglas
Living Postcolonial Anglicanism
Prospects for a Polycentric Anglican Communion
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Persons
Kwok Pui-lan is Distinguished Scholar at Episcopal Divinity School and a past president of the American Academy of Religion.
Ian T. Douglas is retired Bishop Diocesan of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and former Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Episcopal Divinity School.
Ian T. Douglas is retired Bishop Diocesan of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and former Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Episcopal Divinity School.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kwok Pui-lan and Ian T. Douglas
Section I: Toward Postcolonial Ecclesiology and Theology
Chapter 1: Postcolonialism and the Anglican Communion
Kwok Pui-lan
Chapter 2: The Truth Shall Set You Free: Anglicanism Through a Hermeneutic of Difference
Ian T. Douglas
Chapter 3: Shattering the Ceiling of Power: Reimagining Anglican Witness as "Withness"
Esther Mombo and Godfrey Owino Adera
Chapter 4: Race and Sexuality in the "Regions Beyond": Toward a Queer Missiology
Patrick S. Cheng
Chapter 5: Voicing Postcolonial Anglican Theology
Robert S. Heaney
Section II: Horizons for Justice
Chapter 6: It's All about Climate: Change, Crisis, Justice
Julio E. Murray Thompson
Chapter 7: A Challenge to the Anglican Communion: Step Up and Prioritize the Global Poor
John Hammock and Edmund Newell
Chapter 8: Exploring Human Sexuality in Postcolonial African Churches
Victor R. Atta-Baffoe
Chapter 9: Reimagining the Future of Women in Ministry: The Experience of Malaysia
Judy Berinai
Chapter 10: The Spires and the Rafters: Exploring Haudenosaunee Self-Determination as Indigenous Anglicans
Rosalyn Kantlaht'ant Elm
Chapter 11: Christian Unity and Witness: Stories from Pakistan to the United States
Salmoon Bashir
Section III: Missional and Pastoral Possibilities
Chapter 12: Mission and Postcolonialism in the Anglican Communion
Jesse Zink
Chapter 13: Shaping Anglican Bible Study: Contextual Bible Study in the Anglican Communion
Gerald O. West
Chapter 14: Liturgy as Mission and Mission as Liturgy
Luiz Carlos Teixeira Coelho
Chapter 15: Decolonizing White Supremacy: Confronting Colonial Anglican Legacies
Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook
Chapter 16: Redeeming Imperial Anglicanism: The Challenge for Theological Education
Jenny Te Paa Daniel
Index
About the Contributors
Introduction
Kwok Pui-lan and Ian T. Douglas
Section I: Toward Postcolonial Ecclesiology and Theology
Chapter 1: Postcolonialism and the Anglican Communion
Kwok Pui-lan
Chapter 2: The Truth Shall Set You Free: Anglicanism Through a Hermeneutic of Difference
Ian T. Douglas
Chapter 3: Shattering the Ceiling of Power: Reimagining Anglican Witness as "Withness"
Esther Mombo and Godfrey Owino Adera
Chapter 4: Race and Sexuality in the "Regions Beyond": Toward a Queer Missiology
Patrick S. Cheng
Chapter 5: Voicing Postcolonial Anglican Theology
Robert S. Heaney
Section II: Horizons for Justice
Chapter 6: It's All about Climate: Change, Crisis, Justice
Julio E. Murray Thompson
Chapter 7: A Challenge to the Anglican Communion: Step Up and Prioritize the Global Poor
John Hammock and Edmund Newell
Chapter 8: Exploring Human Sexuality in Postcolonial African Churches
Victor R. Atta-Baffoe
Chapter 9: Reimagining the Future of Women in Ministry: The Experience of Malaysia
Judy Berinai
Chapter 10: The Spires and the Rafters: Exploring Haudenosaunee Self-Determination as Indigenous Anglicans
Rosalyn Kantlaht'ant Elm
Chapter 11: Christian Unity and Witness: Stories from Pakistan to the United States
Salmoon Bashir
Section III: Missional and Pastoral Possibilities
Chapter 12: Mission and Postcolonialism in the Anglican Communion
Jesse Zink
Chapter 13: Shaping Anglican Bible Study: Contextual Bible Study in the Anglican Communion
Gerald O. West
Chapter 14: Liturgy as Mission and Mission as Liturgy
Luiz Carlos Teixeira Coelho
Chapter 15: Decolonizing White Supremacy: Confronting Colonial Anglican Legacies
Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook
Chapter 16: Redeeming Imperial Anglicanism: The Challenge for Theological Education
Jenny Te Paa Daniel
Index
About the Contributors
