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Globalized mission and the Social Gospel of Jesus : a postcolonial optic
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/46025 Globalized mission and the Social Gospel of Jesus : a postcolonial optic Van Eck, Ernest Jacobs, Pierre J. UCTD Biblical studies New Testament Roman Palestine Social Gospel Globalization Kingdom of God Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014. This study’s focus is Jesus’ significant representation of the kingdom of God utilizable for mission today – a topic of importance for contemporary Christianity’s sustainable reaction to a globalizing world. Christianity should not have to be a spectator to globalization but one of its agents, one of the forces at work by extending interconnection between peoples, shared ideas and promoted social, political and cultural links. How should Christian churches conceive of their mission within the context of a globalizing world? It is remarkable that after two millennia of Jesus’ life, ‘mission in the kingdom of God’ is still of great importance for human life on earth. Indeed, contemporary secularists might not commend religion with the custody of such a fundamental burden of responsibility. Yet, considering the times we live in, a foundation of sustainable values for earth are inescapably important. Nevertheless, from what foundational values does Christianity draw to bear witness of the divine in a secular age? When considering all the factors mentioned, what foundational ethics and virtues of Christianity that we bear witness to are still believable in a secular age? The purpose of this study is not to provide a complete response to the question of mission of the church in a globalizing world, but to establish a framework within which answers may be sought. The study is informed from a variety of disciplines such as politics, cultural theory and politics, which are not the usual fields of New Testament Studies. Therefore, this study presents itself in five chapters informing one another. Chapter 1 addresses the issues that surface from current missional reaction and the broader implications that globalization has on changing social and institutional realities and the churches’ response to it. Chapter 2 identifies indispensable characteristics of the early twentieth century Social Gospel movement to implement those values as essential building blocks in globalized mission. In Chapter 3 investigates the potential use of Postcolonial Theory for categorizing postcolonial characteristics of marginalization, oppression, neo-imperialism and neocolonialism. Chapter 4 applies the outcomes of Chapter 1 through 3 with which Richard Horsley’s proposed perspective on Jesus’ mission in Roman Palestine as the ‘renewal of Israel’ is considered to discern about the first century world and the implications it has for the third millennium. The Christian faith, among others, has marginalizing practices derived from centuries old traditions and biased interpretations of Scripture. We see examples of it strewn over two millennia. Chapter 5 concludes this cursory study by summarizing the valuable and constructive characteristics in mission, globalization, postcolonial studies and the Social Gospel. These characteristics can inform the Christian faith in its responsibility of living, and letting others participate, through ‘mission’, in the kingdom of God. Because if we do not, what is still believable today about the significant life of Jesus? tm2015 New Testament Studies PhD Unrestricted 2015-07-02T11:06:30Z 2015-07-02T11:06:30Z 2015/04/28 2014 Thesis Jacobs, PJ 2014, Globalized mission and the Social Gospel of Jesus : a postcolonial optic, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46025> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46025 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Biblical studies New Testament Roman Palestine Social Gospel Globalization Kingdom of God Globalized mission and the Social Gospel of Jesus : a postcolonial optic |
| title | Globalized mission and the Social Gospel of Jesus : a postcolonial optic |
| title_full | Globalized mission and the Social Gospel of Jesus : a postcolonial optic |
| title_fullStr | Globalized mission and the Social Gospel of Jesus : a postcolonial optic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Globalized mission and the Social Gospel of Jesus : a postcolonial optic |
| title_short | Globalized mission and the Social Gospel of Jesus : a postcolonial optic |
| title_sort | globalized mission and the social gospel of jesus a postcolonial optic |
| topic | UCTD Biblical studies New Testament Roman Palestine Social Gospel Globalization Kingdom of God |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46025 |