Deconstructing Whiteness, Empire and Mission

Anthony Reddie is Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, and one of the world’s leading black theologians.Carol Troupe is a research assistant at the Queen's Foundation

"...A marvelous achievement: The first of its kind broad based examination of the problem of whiteness in theology, theological education, and society in the United Kingdom. The contributors to this powerful volume capture both the evasion of many British theologians to confront their own racial empire and its intellectual legacies and a way forward in how to think a life of faith not bound to whiteness. These courageous scholars have marked a new beginning for theology in the UK and beyond. This book is the turning point and therefore it must be find its way into the hands of every student, pastor, and scholar interested in a viable future for the church and theology."

• Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Part One: Decolonizing theological education 1 Beyond Theological Self-Possession Mike Higton 2 Deconstructing Whiteness in the UK Christian Theological Academy David L. Clough 3 Re-Distributing Theological Knowledge in Theological Education as an act of Distributive Justice in Contemporary Christian Mission Eve Parker 4 Dealing with the Two Deadly Ds: Deconstructing Whiteness and Decolonizing the Curriculum of Theological Education Anthony G. Reddie Part Two: Perspectives on History 5 Octavius Hadfield: 19th Century Goodie or 21st Century Baddie? Learnings from the complexities of mission and empire James Butler and Cathy Ross 6 Stolen Myths: Pālangi, Fairness, Native theologies Jione Havea 7 Post-colonialism and Re-stor(y)ing the Ecumenical Movement Peniel Rajkumar 8 A Happy Ecumenical Legacy for the London Missionary Society? Exposing the Coloniality Between Churches Engaged in Mission. Victoria Turner 9 Speaking to the Past: A Black Laywoman’s Theological Appraisal of LMS Archives Carol Troupe 10 Mission and Whiteness: Archival Lessons from LMS in British Guiana (Guyana) Michael Jagessar Part Three: Personal Reflections 11 Coming Full Circle: Christianity, Empire, Whiteness, The Global Majority, and the Struggles of Migrants and Refugees in Britain Paul Weller 12 ‘I know where you’re coming from’: exploring intercultural assumptions Jill Marsh 13 See, Judge, Act: Wrestling with the effects of colonialism as an English priest in Wales Kevin Ellis Part Four: Exploration of Whiteness 14 Unbecoming: reflections on the work of a white theologian Rachel Starr 15 ‘Come we go Chant Down Babylon’: How Black liberation theology subverts White privilege and dismantles the econcruomics of empire to save the planet Kevin Snyman 16 “Holding the space”: troubling ‘the facilitating obsession of whiteness’ in contemporary social-justice-focused models of mission Al Barrett and Ruth Harley