In this book, Sarosh Koshy strives to go beyond the mission model of Christianity that emerged alongside and within the colonial enterprise and ethos since the sixteenth century. Rather than denounce the inheritance of the mission movement that transformed both the church and world in innumerable ways, it is a simultaneous expression of appreciation for this precious heritage, and an attempt to do justice by it through a yearning quest for relevant paradigms of Christian engagement. Indeed, there is an intense tension within this book, and in fact a twin tension at that. The tension is between those seeking to keep the current mission paradigm alive out of habit or as a self-serving device, thus corrupting and withering away a bequeathal that essentially set free the voluntary/independent spirit of Christian individuals and their intentional collectives from both the ecclesiastical and political authorities. On the other side are those who enlist mission both as a subsequent activity and as a basis to pursue innocuous, and at times apparently heroic options that would seemingly satisfy a supposed missional mandatory. This work enlists postcolonial and poststructuralist resources pedagogically, to teach of mission, missiology, World Christianity, and intercultural theology.

Autorentext

Sarosh Koshy holds a PhD in Christian theology from Drew University, USA. He is a researcher with decades-long work experience with social action groups, faith organizations, and social movements, both in India and the US, and is currently based in New York, USA.

Klappentext
In this book, Sarosh Koshy strives to go beyond the mission model of Christianity that emerged alongside and within the colonial enterprise and ethos since the sixteenth century. Rather than denounce the inheritance of the mission movement that transformed both the church and world in innumerable ways, it is a simultaneous expression of appreciation for this precious heritage, and an attempt to do justice by it through a yearning quest for relevant paradigms of Christian engagement.
Indeed, there is an intense tension within this book, and in fact a twin tension at that. The tension is between those seeking to keep the current mission paradigm alive out of habit or as a self-serving device, thus corrupting and withering away a bequeathal that essentially set free the voluntary/independent spirit of Christian individuals and their intentional collectives from both the ecclesiastical and political authorities. On the other side are those who enlist mission both as a subsequent activity and as a basis to pursue innocuous, and at times apparently heroic options that would seemingly satisfy a supposed missional mandatory.
This work enlists postcolonial and poststructuralist resources pedagogically, to teach of mission, missiology, World Christianity, and intercultural theology.

Inhalt
INTRODUCTIONI.1. Arguments, Definitions, and the Proposal that defines this QuestI.2. Sustaining and Advancing the Christian Faith TraditionsI.3. Problematizing the System of Dual ConversionsI.3.1. Heeding the Call of the Wholly Other,by Regarding Every OtherI.4. Unavoidability of Violence, Violation, and Discrimination, as the Source of Sin and CorruptionI.5. Proclamation that in itself is the Call to DiscipleshipI.6. Textuality of Everything in Human RealmI.7. Current Paradigm of Mission and its DiscontentsI.8. Resources that lead us beyond missio DeiI.9. Sola FructusFruits Alone: The Unstated End of the Protestant SolasCHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL CONTEXT AND THE MISSION IMPERATIVE1.1. Discernments from the Joban Tradition1.1.1. Eschatological Visions and Limited Teleologies1.1.2. Tame and Traitorous Standpoints: Inhabiting different locations on the Same Text1.1.3. Missional Charity and Solidarity: Considering Privilege and Disprivilege as Mutually Independent1.1.4. Resisting Temptations of Complete Resolution and Final Peace1.2. Foreclosure, Denegation and the Imperative of Civilizing Mission1.2.1. Christian Efforts at Foreclosure and Denegation1.2.1.1. Delineating All of Christian Life as Mission and Missionary1.2.2. From Ur to Empty Tomb: The Unending Destruction of Essence1.3. The Materialist Predication of the Subject1.4. The Question of Full Presence of the Self and God in Human Speech1.4.1. The Disruption of Presence1.4.2. Possibility of Presence only within the Matrix of Critical Pondering and Yearning1.5. The Source of Universality and Uniqueness1.6. Sojourning between a Pair of Ellipses and on a Bridge with Unsecured TowersCHAPTER 2: CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGICAL ARTICULATIONS IN MISSION THEOLOGY AND MISSIO DEI2.1. A Retrojective Paradigm that Refuses Shifting2.2. Seeking to Shift the Mission Paradigm, yet Reinforcing it2.2.1. Modern Missionary Movement and its Shortcomings2.2.2. Scriptural and Theological Basis for Mission2.2.3. Eschatology and Teleology2.3. Saving missio Dei from accidental secular authorities2.4. Saturating the Empty Tomb and turning it into a Mausoleum2.5. Seeking a Progressive Theology of Mission for the Postcolony2.6. ConclusionCHAPTER 3: BEYOND MISSIO DEI: THEOLOGICAL RESOURCES FOR THE JOURNEY3.1. The Messiah who Abrogates Messianism3.2. Repentance: Renouncing Current Witness and Embracing a New One3.3. Counter-Apocalyptic Witness and Relational Becoming3.4. Do this in My RemembranceWitness as Eucharistic Living3.5. Substitutionary Atonement that Prevents any Theological Response3.5.1. Ontological Difference Instituted by the Concept of Human Resource Management3.6. Constructedness of all Religions, and the Witness of God and Christians3.6.1. Relativization of Religions3.6.2. Witness: Not posturing to leap, but always already leaping3.6.3. Jesus sans Life, Barth sans Barmen3.7. ConclusionCHAPTER 4: WITNESS OF GOD AND THE RISK OF PROCLAMATION4.1. Matthew's Manifesto on Becoming Witnesses and Living Reflexively4.1.1. Turn and Become like Children: Begin Living without Eschatological Missions4.1.2. Making Disciples, Baptizing, and Teaching4.2. Seize the Miracles and Seek Resurrection4.3. Law versus Faith: Justification by Faith Re-imagined4.4. Marturion Dei and the Marturia of the Disciples&lt...