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Teaching all nations

Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission

  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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For Christians interested in mission and history

Challenges assumptions about the Great Commission

You will gain a deeper understanding of missions today

This book critically examines the implications of the Great Commission in missionary history.

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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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  • Title

    Teaching all nations

  • Author

    Mitzi J. Smith

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    May 2014

  • Weight

    459g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451470499

  • ISBN-10

    1451470495

  • Eden Code

    4270180