Who Is the Subject of Mission? The Need to Decolonize Mission From the Perspective of “the Margins”

• Published in: Transformation (Exeter) Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 131 - 139
• Main Author: Knuth, Anton
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England Sage Publications, Inc 01.04.2020; SAGE Publications
• Subjects: Conference Papers; Mission history; self-Christianization; Northeast India; Pacific; Global Christianity

The critique of mission history often involves perpetuating the overestimated impact of the missionaries from opposite sides. It was not so much the missionaries who mattered, but what mattered more was whether the people were responding to the message or not. Today we see the translating function o...