Remembering Jamestown: Hard Questions about Christian Mission - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 149825523X ISBN 13 : 9781498255233

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

For many Americans, Christian missionary efforts have usually involved distant and exotic places. Sometimes, however, we can learn more about missions and interreligious engagement by looking in our own backyard. This collection of essays deriving from a consultation on missionary history and attitudes in colonial Jamestown, Virginia, explores long-standing assumptions related to Christian mission by listening to Native American voices. What were the ideologies and theologies that motivated early Virginia colonists? How did certain understandings of mission and church provide support and legitimacy for invasion and exploitation? What were, and are, the responses of indigenous populations, and how should Christian mission to Native Americans continue in light of this history? This book addresses these still very relevant questions and explores ways in which new understandings of Christian mission are needed in the expanding religious and cultural diversity of the twenty-first century.

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À propos de l?auteur

Amos Yong is Professor of Theology and Mission and the Director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is the author and editor of more than forty books, including Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighbor (2008). This book is a companion to his The Dialogical Spirit: Christian Reason and Theological Method in the Third Millennium (Cascade, 2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 149825523X
• ISBN 13: 9781498255233
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Éditeur: Yong Amos, Zikmund Barbara Brown
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible