RT Article
T1 Tracking the Decolonial in African Christian Theology: A Southern African Perspective on Mission from the Margins as a Decolonial Mode of Mission
JF International review of mission
VO 112
IS 2
SP 202
OP 217
A1 Sakupapa, Teddy Chalwe
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1871671949
AB AbstractDrawing on the framework and pluriversalist vision of decoloniality, this article offers a conceptual mapping of theoretical debates and trends in recent discourse on the decolonization of theology in the Southern African context with a view to outlining key missiological implications of such debates. It posits a view of African decolonial theology as the foregrounding of local, indigenous, contextual knowledge in discourse and as the praxis of faith rooted in contextual analysis of historical realities. This contribution articulates the notion of “mission from the margins,” derived from Together towards Life, as a decolonial mode of mission that gestures toward an epistemological shift in missional thinking. An initial version of this paper was presented at the seminar on decolonization organized by the World Council of Churches’ Commission on World Mission and Evangelism that was held in Lisbon, Portugal, in June 2023.
K1 decolonial African Christian theology
K1 decolonial mode of mission
K1 mission from the margins
DO 10.1111/irom.12476