Beyond Missio Dei: Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Praise for Beyond Missio Dei
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: In Search of Signposts Toward A New Theological Paradigm
	1.1 Arguments, Definitions, and the Proposal That Defines This Quest
	1.2 Sustaining and Advancing the Christian Faith Tradition
	1.3 Problematizing the System of Dual Conversions
		1.3.1 Heeding the Call of the Wholly Other, by Regarding Every Other
	1.4 Unavoidability of Violence, Violation, and Discrimination, as the Source of Sin and Corruption
	1.5 Proclamation That in Itself Is the Call to Discipleship
	1.6 Textuality of Everything in the Human Realm
	1.7 Current Paradigm of Mission and Its Discontents
	1.8 Resources That Lead Us Beyond Missio Dei
	1.9 Sola Fructus—Fruits Alone: The Unstated End of the Protestant Solas
	References
Chapter 2: Job, the Joban Tradition, and the Status-Quoist Nature of Mission
	2.1 Job and the Joban Tradition
		2.1.1 Eschatological Visions and Limited Teleologies
		2.1.2 Tame and Traitorous Standpoints: Inhabiting Different Locations on the Same Text
		2.1.3 Missional Charity and Solidarity: Considering Privilege and Disprivilege As Mutually Independent
		2.1.4 Resisting Temptations of Complete Resolution and Final Peace
	References
Chapter 3: Discernments from the Joban Tradition: Theoretical Context and the Mission Imperative
	3.1 Foreclosure, Denegation, and the Imperative of Civilizing Mission
		3.1.1 Christian Efforts at Foreclosure and Denegation
			3.1.1.1	 Delineating All of Christian Life as Mission and Missionary
		3.1.2 From Ur to Empty Tomb: The Unending Destruction of Essence
	3.2 The Materialist Predication of the Subject
	3.3 The Question of Full-Presence of the Self and God in Human Speech
		3.3.1 The Disruption of Presence
		3.3.2 Possibility of Presence Only Within the Matrix of Critical Pondering and Yearning
	3.4 The Source of Universality and Uniqueness
	3.5 Sojourning between a Pair of Ellipses and on a Bridge with Unsecured Towers
	References
Chapter 4: Contemporary Theological Articulations in Mission Theology and Missio Dei
	4.1 A Retrojective Paradigm that Refuses Shifting
	4.2 Seeking to Shift the Paradigm of Mission, Yet Reinforcing It
		4.2.1 Modern Missionary Movement and Its Shortcomings
		4.2.2 Scriptural and Theological Basis for Mission
		4.2.3 Eschatology and Teleology
	4.3 Saving Missio Dei from Accidental Secular Authorities
	4.4 Saturating the Empty Tomb and Turning It into a Mausoleum
	4.5 Seeking a Progressive Theology of Mission for the Postcolony
	4.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Beyond Missio Dei: Theological Resources for the Journey
	5.1 The Messiah Who Abrogates Messianism
	5.2 Repentance: Renouncing Current Witness and Embracing a New One
	5.3 Counter-Apocalyptic Witness and Relational Becoming
	5.4 “Do this in Remembrance of Me”—Witness as Eucharistic Living
	5.5 Substitutionary Atonement that Prevents any Theological Response
		5.5.1 Ontological Difference Instituted by the Concept of Human Resource Management
	5.6 Constructedness of all Religions, and the Witness of God and Christians
		5.6.1 Relativization of Religions
		5.6.2 Witness: Not Posturing to Leap, But Always Already Leaping
		5.6.3 Jesus sans Life, Barth sans Barmen
	5.7 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Witness of God and the Risk of Proclamation
	6.1 Matthew’s Manifesto on Becoming Witnesses and Living Reflexively
		6.1.1 Turn and Become like Children: Begin Living without Eschatological Missions
		6.1.2 Making Disciples, Baptizing, and Teaching
	6.2 Seize the Miracles and Seek Resurrection
	6.3 Law Versus Faith: “Justification by Faith” Reimagined
	6.4 Marturion Dei and the Marturia of the Disciples
	6.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Behold the Marturion Dei, Witness Courageously, and Have Life Abundantly
	References
Bibliography
Index