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Colonialism involves more than just territorial domination. It also
creates cultural space that silences and disenfranchises those who
do not hold power. This process of subjugation continues today in
various forms of neocolonialism, such as globalization.
Postcolonialism arose in the latter half of the twentieth century
to challenge the problem of coloniality at the level of our
language and our actions (praxis). Postcolonialism seeks to disrupt
forms of domination and empower the marginalized to be agents of
transformation. In 2010, the Postcolonial Roundtable gathered at
Gordon College to initiate a new conversation regarding the
significance of postcolonial discourse for evangelicalism. The
present volume is the fruit of that discussion. Addressing themes
like nationalism, mission, Christology, catholicity and shalom,
these groundbreaking essays explore new possibilities for
evangelical thought, identity and practice. The contributors
demonstrate the resources for postcolonial criticism within the
evangelical tradition, as well as the need to subject evangelical
thought to an ever-new critique to prevent the formation of new
centers of domination. Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations
models the kind of open dialogue that the church needs in order to
respond appropriately to the pressing concerns of the world today.
That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with
European colonization and American imperialist expansion in the
19th and 20th centuries is well recognized. The linchpin role
played in those efforts by the "Great Commission" - the risen
Christ's command to "go into all the world" and "teach all nations"
- has more often been observed than analyzed, however. 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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