Teaching all nations Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission
Smith, Mitzi J.
Teaching all nations Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission Mitzi J. Smith - Minneapolis, U.S.A The Fortress 2014 - 318tr. Paperback
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
9781451470499
Missions -- History
Missions -- Theory
Great Commission (Bible)
231.09 / M685-S64
Teaching all nations Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission Mitzi J. Smith - Minneapolis, U.S.A The Fortress 2014 - 318tr. Paperback
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
9781451470499
Missions -- History
Missions -- Theory
Great Commission (Bible)
231.09 / M685-S64