Sarosh Koshy

Beyond Missio Dei

Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Sarosh Koshy strives to go beyond the mission model of Christianity that emerged alongside and within the colonial enterprise and ethos since the sixteenth century. Rather than denounce the inheritance of the mission movement that transformed both the church and world in innumerable ways, it is a simultaneous expression of appreciation for this precious heritage, and an attempt to do justice by it through a yearning quest for relevant paradigms of Christian engagement.Indeed, there is an intense tension within this book, and in fact a twin tension at that. The tension is between those seeking to keep the current mission paradigm alive out of habit or as a self-serving device, thus corrupting and withering away a bequeathal that essentially set free the voluntary/independent spirit of Christian individuals and their intentional collectives from both the ecclesiastical and political authorities. On the otherside are those who enlist mission both as a subsequent activity and as a basis to pursue innocuous, and at times apparently heroic options that would seemingly satisfy a supposed missional mandatory.
This work enlists postcolonial and poststructuralist resources pedagogically, to teach of mission, missiology, World Christianity, and intercultural theology.

Produktdetails

• Postcolonialism and Religions
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-82067-1
• 1st ed. 2022
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9783030820671
• ISBN-10: 303082067X
• Artikelnr.: 62108969

Autorenporträt

Sarosh Koshy holds a PhD in Christian theology from Drew University, USA. He is a researcher with decades-long work experience with social action groups, faith organizations, and social movements, both in India and the US, and is currently based in New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: in search of signposts toward a new theological paradigm.- 2: Job, the joban tradition, and the status-quoist nature of mission.- 3: Discernments from the joban tradition: theoretical context and the mission imperative.- 4: Contemporary theological articulations in mission theology and missio dei.- 5: Beyond missio dei: theological resources for the journey.- 6: Witness of god and the risk of proclamation.- 7: Conclusion: behold the marturion dei, witness courageously, and have life abundantly.

Rezensionen

"In Beyond Missio Dei, Sarosh Koshy highlights the problematic aspect of understanding Christian mission as missio Dei and offers the notion of witness as an alternative path toward a postcolonial mission. ... As an Anabaptist Christian, I welcome Koshy's notion of discipleship as a never-ending process of 'becoming' Christian ... ." (Luis Tapia Rubio, Anabaptist Witness, Vol. 11 (2), October, 2024)