Can White People Be Saved? Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Race and Missiology in Glocal Perspective
	The Interdependent Nature of Race and Missions
	Studying Racism and Race in Missiological Context
	Race and Missions in Glocal Perspective
Part I: Race and Place at the Dawn of Modernity
	1 Can White People Be Saved?: Reflections on the Relationship of Missions and Whiteness
		Whiteness as a Formation Toward Maturity
		The Feeling of Whiteness
		Forming a Place to Be
	2 Decolonizing Salvation
		Indigenous Colonization and Christian Missionization
		Evangelicals/Pentecostals and Christian Colonization
		Native Theologies
		Native Evangelicals and Decolonization
		Decolonization and Salvation
		Beyond the White Savior Industrial Complex
Part II: Race and the Colonial Enterprise
	3 Christian Debates on Race, Theology, and Mission in India
		Introduction
		Tamil Understandings of Caste as Race
		Jesuit Experiences with the Tamil Peoples of Various Castes
		Lutheran Experiences with the Tamil Peoples of Various Castes
		Lutheran and Anglican Debates About Caste Among the Tamil Christians
		Issues of Caste Among the Tamil Christians After the Nineteenth Century
		Conclusion
	4 Ambivalent Modalities: Mission, Race, and the African Factor
		Introduction: Reviewing the Lay of the Land
		Engaging and Encountering the Crucible of Mission and Race
		Mission and Race in Context: The Story of Ajayi Crowther
		“Missionaries Go Home”: Unmasking the Moratorium Debate
		Toward an Ubuntu Kenosis Missiology
		Conclusion: Mission, Not Manipulation
Part III: Race and Mission to Latin America
	5 Siempre Lo Mismo: Theology, Rhetoric, and Broken Praxis
		The Church and Its Mission: Chabiendas Recurrentes—Siempre Lo Mismo
		Racism as Sin: An Evangelical Theological Perspective
		Racism, Colonialism, and Mission
		The Disciples of Christ in Texas
		The Origin of Christian Missions in Latin America
		Theology, Spirituality, and Perspective Transformation
		Misión Integral: A Theology for Renewed Relationship
	6 Constructing Race in Puerto Rico: The Colonial Legacy of Christianity and Empires, 1510–1910
		Purity-of-Blood Laws in Spain
		The Transformation of the Purity-of-Blood Statutes in Early Colonial Puerto Rico
		A New Empire, a New Religion, and a New Understanding of Race
		Mestizaje and Mulatez in Latinx Theology
		Conclusion: Key Missiological Implications
Part IV: Race in North America Between and Beyond Black-and-White
	7 The End of “Mission”: Christian Witness and the Decentering of White Identity
		Introduction
		Repentance for Complicity in Systemic Sin
		Learning from Non-White Theological and Cultural Resources
		Locating Our Lives in Places and Structures Not Our Own
		Tangible Submission to Non-White Ecclesial Leadership
		Hearing and Speaking the Glory of God in Unfamiliar Cadences
	8 Community, Mission, and Race: A Missiological Meaning of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community for Racial Relationships and Identity Politics
		The Beloved Community
		The Communal-Political Nature of Christian Mission
		Racism
		Desegregation and Integration
		Nonviolence
		The Civil Rights Movement
		Implications
		Conclusion
	9 “The Spirit of God Was Hovering over the Waters”: Pressing Past Racialization in the Decolonial Missionary Context; or, Why Asian American Christians Should Give Up Their Spots at Harvard
		Three Kinds of Postracialism
		The Harvard Case
		Between Decolonial Pasts and Missionary Futures
		Giving Up Harvard
Part V: Scriptural Reconsiderations and Ethnoracial Hermeneutics
	10 Intercultural Communication Skills for a Missiology of Interdependent Mutuality
		Introduction
		A Racialized Society
		Race as a Construct in Cultural Anthropology
		Biblical Anthropology
		Race Relations as a Reading of Acts 10–11; 15
		The Image-IQ Inventory: Developing Intercultural Communication Skills
		Relationship with God
	11 “Humbled Among the Nations”: Matthew 15:21-28 in Antiracist Womanist Missiological Engagement
		Introduction
		Pro-Gentile Versus Anti-Gentile Rhetoric, or “Is the Gospel of Matthew Racist?”
		Matthew 15:21-28 as Resistance Literature
		Conclusion
Conclusion: Mission After Colonialism and Whiteness: The Pentecost Witness of the “Perpetual Foreigner” for the Third Millennium
	Modern Christian Mission: Gospel-Heresy-Colonialism
	The End of (Colorblind) Theology and the End of (Modern) Mission
	A “Perpetual Foreigner” Witness: Pentecost and Mission for the Twenty-First Century
Epilogue
	A Letter from the Archdemon of Racialization to Her Angels in the United States: How Whiteness Secures Our Success in Overcoming the Enemy
List of Contributors
Notes
	Introduction: Race and Missiology in Glocal Perspective
	1 Can White People Be Saved? Reflections on the Relationship of Missions and Whiteness
	2 Decolonizing Salvation
	3 Christian Debates on Race, Theology, and Mission in India
	4 Ambivalent Modalities: Mission, Race, and the African Factor
	5 Siempre Lo Mismo: Theology, Rhetoric, and Broken Praxis
	6 Constructing Race in Puerto Rico: The Colonial Legacy of Christianity and Empires, 1510–1910
	7 The End of “Mission”: Christian Witness and the Decentering of White Identity
	8 Community, Mission, and Race: A Missiological Meaning of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community for Racial Relationships and Identity Politics
	9 “The Spirit of God Was Hovering over the Waters”: Pressing Past Racialization in the Decolonial Missionary Context; or, Why Asian American Christians Should Give Up Their Spots at Harvard
	10 Intercultural Communication Skills for a Missiology of Interdependent Mutuality
	11 “Humbled Among the Nations”: Matthew 15:21-28 in Antiracist Womanist Missiological Engagement
	Conclusion: Mission After Colonialism and Whiteness: The Pentecost Witness of the “Perpetual Foreigner” for the Third Millennium
	Epilogue: A Letter from the Archdemon of Racialization to Her Angels in the United States
Subject Index
Scripture Index
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