Missiological Mutilations - Prospective Paralogies: Language and Power in Contemporary Mission Theory

ISBN-13: 9783631555101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 282 str.

Jorgen Skov Sorensen

Opis

The aim of this study is to demonstrate intrinsic power structures in language patterns of contemporary Christian mission theories. Bringing in questions and concerns raised by postcolonial theory and critical discourse analysis, the study explores the structuralist ideologies behind modern epistemology and it is maintained the associated -modern- language patterns. Based on discourse analyses of language and terminology employed by a number of significant contemporary mission theorists the author in conclusion points towards a widespread use of power language within the modern mission movement. Eventually the study moves from critical analysis into theological construction suggesting a mission theory based on postmodern assumptions, both reconciled with religious diversity through paralogies (Jean-Francois Lyotard) and acknowledging the unavoidable relativity of any theological claim."

Spis treści

Contents: Critical Missiology - Mission Theory - Mission History - Colonialism - Post-Colonial Theory - Globalization - Language Studies - Critical Discourse Analysis - Epistemology - Modernity - Postmodernity - Paralogy - Contemporary Systematic Theologies - Constructive Theologies.

O autorze

The Author: Jørgen Skov Sørensen is General Secretary of the Council on International Relations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark. He has previously taught ecumenism, missiology and interreligious relations at the United College of Ascension, Birmingham (United Kingdom), and systematic theology at the Centre for Multireligious Studies at University of Aarhus (Denmark).