Oscar Garcia-Johnson Spirit Outside the Gate

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Throughout the history of the Christian church, two narratives have constantly clashed: the imperial logic of Babel that builds towers and borders to seize control, versus the logic of Pentecost that empowers "glocal" missionaries of the kingdom life.Spirit Outside the GateBuilding on the familiar missiological metaphor of "outside the gate" established by Orlando Costas, Garcia-Johnson moves to recover important elements in ancestral traditions of the Americas, with an eye to discerning pneumatological continuity between the pre-Columbian and post-Columbian communities. He calls for a "rerouting of theology"-a realization that theology cannot make its home in Christendom but is a global creation that must come home to a church without borders.In this volume Garcia-Johnsonconsiders pneumatological insights into de/postcolonial studiestraces independent epistemic contributions of the American Global Southshows how American indigenous, Afro-Latinx, and immigrant communities provide resources for a decolonial pneumatologydescribes four transformations the American church must undergo to break free from colonial, modernist, and monocultural structuresSpirit Outside the GateMissiological Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges church, academy, and society.