Constructive Theology from Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives

Unsettling Empire

Eleazar S. Fernandez

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978768499
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

This edited collection deconstructs and reimagines the major doctrines of the Christian faith from various postcolonial and decolonial perspectives.
Across eighteen chapters, Eleazar S. Fernandez and the contributors respond to the need for a postcolonial critique of religion, particularly Christianity. Each essay, through the postcolonial optic, names a salient classical point of Christian doctrine, exposing and deconstructing hegemonic religious ideas and practices. In doing so, the authors articulate theologies that both decolonize and construct liberating ways of thinking, dwelling, and acting for the sake of our shared flourishing. Each section focuses on a specific branch of inquiry, offering a multifaceted approach to relevant topics such as theological method, God and creation, humanity and society, Christology, and church communities and rituals from a post/decolonial perspective. By bringing together scholars from around the world, each with distinct experiences of colonialism, this volume offers a nuanced discussion of the colonial histories that shape Christianity and the ripe post/decolonial futures that await those impacted by colonialism. Ultimately, this book responds to Christianity's continued entanglements with empire, racism, patriarchy, and neoliberalism, calling for a theological reckoning that moves beyond critique toward the construction of liberating alternatives.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I Theological Method : Context, Hermeneutic Lens, and Resources for Doing Theology
• 1 Theological Method: Constructing Theology from Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives
• 2 Theology of Revelation after Colonialism
• 3 The Bible and the Wounds of Empire: Postcolonial Reflections on Interpretation
• Part II God, Creation, Divine Providence, and Evil
• 4 Creation, Sin, and Evil
• 5 The Trinity: Relation of Jeong, Powol-love
• Part III Human Being, Society, and the Earth Community
• 6 Sketching the Human Creature: Post/Decolonial Constructive Possibilities for Theological Anthropology
• 7 Saling-pusa : Queer Belonging and Postcolonial Speech
• 8 Naming, Unmasking, and Engaging Sin: Theological Anthropology in Response to the Web of Death
• Part IV Jesus the Christ
• 9 Who Do You Say I Am?: Decolonial Challenges to Imperial Christology
• 10 Theology of Atonement
• 11 Jesus Christ and Other Religious Paths
• Part V The Church: The Body of Christ
• 12 Being Church, Doing Mission amid Crises and Challenges
• 13 Ecumenism: A Postcolonial-Decolonial Account in the Face of Existential Threats
• 14 The Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper from a Postcolonial Perspective: A View from the Margins
• 15 Cultivating Liturgical Soil in a Decolonial Key
• Part VI The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life
• 16 The Sanctifying Breath: Reimagining the Decolonial Spirit
• 17 Spiritual Matters
• Part VII Eschatology: An Account of Suffering and Hope
• 18 Anti-Imperial Eschatology: Not So Much an Ending, More an Anarchic Horizon
• Index
• Copyright