Teaching All Nations
Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2014
334 pages
978-1-4514-7989-8 (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 Christ's 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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Edited by Mitzi J. Smith and Jayachitra Lalitha
Content
- Intro
- Teaching All Nations
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Colonial Missions and the Great Commission: Re-Membering the Past
- Colonial Mission and the Great Commission in Africa
- Examining the Promulgation and Impact of the Great Commission in the Caribbean, 1492-1970: A Historical Analysis
- US Colonial Missions to African Slaves: Catechizing Black Souls, Traumatizing the Black Psyche
- Womanist, Feminist, and Postcolonial Criticisms and the Great Commission
- The Great Commission: A Postcolonial Dalit Feminist Inquiry
- Privilege but No Power: Women in the Gospel of Matthew and Nineteenth-Century African American Women Missionaries through a Postcolonial Lens
- 'Knowing More than is Good for One': A Womanist Interrogation of the Matthean Great Commission
- Theology, Art, and the Great Commission
- Images of Jesus in Advancing the Great Commission
- The Great Commission in the Face of Suffering as Minjung
- Children's Agency and Edinburgh 2010: The Great Commission or a Greater Omission?
- The Great Commission and Christian Education: Rethinking Our Pedagogy
- Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission for US Christian Education: Reclaiming Jesus' Kingdom of God Message for the Church
- Beginning Again: Rethinking Christian Education in Light of the Great Commission
- Christian Moral Education and the Great Commission in an African Context
- Interrogating the Commission from Beyond the Academy
- A United States Inner-City Oriented Great Commission
- The Great Commission's Impact on a Short-term Missionary and Lay Leader in the Church of God in Christ
- Index of Subjects and Names
- Index of Biblical References
