Spirit Outside the Gate – Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South

Oscar García–johnson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2019
IVP Academic (Verlag)
978-0-8308-5240-6 (ISBN)

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Throughout the history of the Christian church, two narratives have constantly clashed: the imperial logic of Babel that builds towers and borders to seize control, versus the logic of Pentecost that empowers "glocal" missionaries of the kingdom life. To what extent are Westernized Christians today ready for the church of the Pentecost narrative? Are they equipped to do ministry in different cultural modes and to handle disruption and perplexity? What are Christians to make of the Holy Spirit's occasional encounters with cultures and religions of the Americas before the European conquest?
Oscar García-Johnson explores a new grammar for the study of theology and mission in global Christianity, especially in Latin America and the Latinx "third spaces" in North America. With an interdisciplinary, "transoccidental," and narrative approach, Spirit Outside the Gate offers a constructive theology of mission for the church in global contexts.
Building on the familiar missiological metaphor of "outside the gate" established by Orlando Costas, García-Johnson moves to recover important elements in ancestral traditions of the Americas, with an eye to discerning pneumatological continuity between the pre-Columbian and post-Columbian communities. He calls for a "rerouting of theology"—a realization that theology cannot make its home in Christendom but is a global creation that must come home to a church without borders.
In this volume García-Johnson

considers pneumatological insights into de/postcolonial studies
traces independent epistemic contributions of the American Global South
shows how American indigenous, Afro-Latinx, and immigrant communities provide resources for a decolonial pneumatology
describes four transformations the American church must undergo to break free from colonial, modernist, and monocultural structures

Spirit Outside the Gate opens a path for a pneumatological missiology that can help the church act as a witness to the gospel message in a postmodern, postcolonial, and post-Christendom world.
Missiological Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges church, academy, and society.

Oscar García-Johnson is associate professor of theology and Latino/a studies and assistant provost for the Center for the Study of Hispanic Church and Community at Fuller Theological Seminary. An ordained Baptist minister, he has also served as a regional minister with the American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles, and his books include Conversaciones Teológicas del Sur Global Americano, coedited;Theology Without Borders, coauthored with William Dyrness; and The Mestizo/a Community of the Spirit.

Preface: An Amorphous Journey in Transoccidental Studies

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Narrative: The American Global South: Challenges and Visions

1. A Child of the Occident

2. A Child Without History

3. The Transoccidental Imagination: Christian Theologies and Missions Within Trans-Americanity

Part II: The Gate: The Geopolitics of Western Theology and Mission

4. Theological Paradigms Inside the Gate: The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Decolonial Alternative

5. Naming the Gates in “Christian” America

Part III: Outside the Gate: In Search of Ungating Christian Logics in the American Global South

6. Outside the Gate and Orlando Costas’s Missiological Legacy

7. Colonial Wound: Moving Beyond Christology

Part IV: Theology Otherwise: Decolonial Pneumatologies in the American Global South

8. Rerouting Theology: The Pneumatological (Transoccidental) Difference

9. Traditioning the Spirit Outside the Gate: On the Canonical Imagination of the Americas

10. The Spirit as Decolonial Healer

Part V: Crossings: Perspectives on Theology, Whiteness, and Global Designs

11. A Dis-claiming Theology

12. Church Without Borders: Ecclesial Tales of the Spirit Outside the Gate

Epilogue: ¿Y Ahora Qué? Can the “White Western” University Be Freed? (An Indiscreet Email)

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2019
Verlagsort	IL
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 227 mm
Gewicht	462 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8308-5240-9 / 0830852409
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-5240-6 / 9780830852406
Zustand	Neuware