Colonial and Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation - La serie di libri

In postmodern North America and Europe, Christianity is declining, yet in the global south nations--that is, Asia, Africa, Latin America and South America--Christianity of all types and shapes has been emerging from years of colonialism, postcolonialism, and now post-pandemics. Church growth in these once imperially colonized nations is burgeoning in ways never seen before. The reason for Christian growth and church revival and revitalization revolves around the translation of the Bible into numerous vernacular languages of people, tribes, and ethnicities found in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and South America. While the project on colonial, postcolonial, and post-pandemic Christianity, as well as racial times, is daunting, the research in this field of inquiry is fascinating, because North America and European nations with their imperial hunger for power and control will never accept global south nations as leaders of Christendom in the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries. In the face of the rise of the global south nations, North America and Europe will have to wrestle with revising ancient and reformation Bible interpretive methods in ways that align with new and emerging global Bible interpretive lenses.

In the last thirty years, the world has seen colonial empires coming to an end, but ruling-class ideas will always be used in an attempt to coerce weaker nations to embrace the official residues of missionaries from both Europe and America. Hence, this series on Christian colonialism, postcolonialism, post-Christendom, and post-pandemic is a larger area of research demanding urgent address and conversations in places of higher education, especially seminaries where clergy leaders are trained. The series will continue to embrace racial, gender, colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial worldviews of the once-oppressed people whose goal is to have indigenized models of Christianity. While power is not easily surrendered, the Holy Spirit as seen, read, and experienced in Luke-Acts is indeed decolonizing both oppressors and the oppressed, forcing both sides into Holy Spirit-formed communities of love, forgiveness, and reconciliation. The twenty-first century is indeed in need of mutually lived-out relationships of respect, love, and peace. Hence, the project embarked on in this research will perhaps lead to journals, seminars, and even Bible-study series to both Christian disciples in global south nations and also in North America and Europe.