In this volume, the authors advance the current prevailing academic dialogue of race and whiteness beyond a mere focus on past ills of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries of European colonialism, toward a positive intercultural missiology. Though the essays do not hesitate to situate contemporary race relations in their proper historical context in terms of global and local social forces, the authors do not stop there or prioritize deconstructing, excusing, or simply explaining how the church, its orthodox theology, and its kingdom building missiology contributed to the abuses, racism, and
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