Amy Carr

Interrogating the Language of “Self” and “Other” in the History of Modern Christian Mission

Evangelism & Missions

“Yip issues an evangelical call to convert missiology itself—away from self-centered notions of evangelizing a needy or inadequate other, into a vision of sharing in God’s reconciling work amid a many-voiced, religiously pluralistic Pentecost. Deftly gathering linguistic, post-colonial, social-scientific, and exegetical insights into a theological framework, Yip analyzes shifting forms of self-serving ‘othering’ in eighteenth through twenty-first-century Western Christian mission discourses, and identifies an emergent missiological language of repentance and kenotic intersubjectivity.”