A perspective on God’s view of human diversity: A missiological application of joy in diversity
This article considers a missiological perspective that emphasizes God’s creation of and joy in human diversity. Beginning with a concrete experience of personal challenge, four questions are explored: (1) Did diversity of human biology and racial phenotype come as a result of God’s original (before...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2020]
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Missiology
Year: 2020, Volume: 48, Issue: 3, Pages: 251-260 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology NBE Anthropology RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
creation design
B cultural mandate B creation joy B racial phenotype B Genesis 11:1–9 B uniformity of race B Genesis 9:1 B Genesis 1:28 B diversity of human biology B human diversity |
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| Summary: | This article considers a missiological perspective that emphasizes God’s creation of and joy in human diversity. Beginning with a concrete experience of personal challenge, four questions are explored: (1) Did diversity of human biology and racial phenotype come as a result of God’s original (before sin) creation design? If not then; (2) Is uniformity of race and biological phenotype the best understanding of God’s original (before sin) creation design? (3) Shall we read the Genesis 1:28; 9:1 “cultural mandate” to fill and subdue the earth as instructions to spread and ethnically/racially diversify across the face of the earth? And, finally, (4) How shall we read the diversity of languages in Genesis 11:1-9 brought up by God: as a curse from God to punish Babel’s pride, or as a remedy from God against Babel’s attempt at uniformity? |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0091829620947706 |