Spirit Outside the Gate - (Missiological Engagements) by Oscar García-Johnson (Paperback)

About the Book

Oscar García-Johnson explores a new grammar for the study of theology and mission in global Christianity, especially in Latin America. Moving to recover important elements in ancestral traditions of the Americas, he discerns pneumatological continuity between the pre-Columbian and post-Columbian communities. With an interdisciplinary, narrative approach, this work offers a constructive theology of mission for the church in global contexts.

Book Synopsis

Oscar García-Johnson explores a new grammar for the study of theology and mission in global Christianity, especially in Latin America. Moving to recover important elements in ancestral traditions of the Americas, he discerns pneumatological continuity between the pre-Columbian and post-Columbian communities. With an interdisciplinary, narrative approach, this work offers a constructive theology of mission for the church in global contexts.

Review Quotes

"García-Johnson has given us more than an innovative decolonial pneumatology. This book offers a new method for doing pneumatology (and all theology) through cultural categories, human experiences, and thought patterns that are not Western or from learned elites. The author dares self-appointed 'mainstream' theologies and theologians to listen to and face the methodological challenge rising from the American Global South. García-Johnson, without a doubt, has established himself among the frontlines of the challenge. This is a must-read volume."

About the Author

Oscar García-Johnson is associate professor of theology and Latino/a studies and assistant provost for the Center for the Study of Hispanic Church and Community at Fuller Theological Seminary. An ordained Baptist minister, he has also served as a regional minister with the American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles, and his books include Conversaciones Teológicas del Sur Global Americano, coedited;Theology Without Borders, coauthored with William Dyrness; and The Mestizo/a Community of the Spirit.