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Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission

Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission

Paperback

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1451470495
ISBN13: 9781451470499
Publisher: Fortress Pr
Published: May 1 2014
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is well recognized. The linchpin role played in those efforts by the Great Commissionthe risen Christs command to go into all the world and teach all nationshas 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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