Marion Grau is the Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a member of the Graduate Theological Union. She is the co-editor with Rosemary Radford Ruerther of Interpreting Post-Modernity: Responses to Radical Orthodoxy. Her essays have appeared in Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War, Postcolonialism and Theology, and Crosscurrents.

• 1. Method to the Missionary Madness; 2. Creations: Telling Time and Place Migrations; 3. Boniface's Mission Don't Mess with the Missionary Clan: The Colensos and the Zulus; 4. We Must Give Ourselves to Voyaging - Regifting The Theological Present; 5. Departures: A Harvest of Tools for Interpreters of Cross-contextual Encounters...

This book makes a significant contribution to a disparate but slowly coalescing 'field'. What are we to make of 'mission' in a thoroughly postcolonial world, particularly when 'the colonies' are talking back? Marion Grau's contribution is significant in that it refuses to turn away from the 'mission' terrain, as many progressive scholars have, thereby surrendering the field to conservative voices. Instead she identifies the mutiplicity of borders and boundaries that constitute the postcolony and then explores what it means to 'do theology', progressively, across this disputed territory.

Marion Grau is the Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a member of the Graduate Theological Union. She is the co-editor with Rosemary Radford Ruerther of Interpreting Post-Modernity: Responses to Radical Orthodoxy. Her essays have appeared in Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War, Postcolonialism and Theology, and Crosscurrents.

• 1. Method to the Missionary Madness; 2. Creations: Telling Time and Place Migrations; 3. Boniface's Mission Don't Mess with the Missionary Clan: The Colensos and the Zulus; 4. We Must Give Ourselves to Voyaging - Regifting The Theological Present; 5. Departures: A Harvest of Tools for Interpreters of Cross-contextual Encounters...

This book makes a significant contribution to a disparate but slowly coalescing 'field'. What are we to make of 'mission' in a thoroughly postcolonial world, particularly when 'the colonies' are talking back? Marion Grau's contribution is significant in that it refuses to turn away from the 'mission' terrain, as many progressive scholars have, thereby surrendering the field to conservative voices. Instead she identifies the mutiplicity of borders and boundaries that constitute the postcolony and then explores what it means to 'do theology', progressively, across this disputed territory.

Marion Grau is the Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a member of the Graduate Theological Union. She is the co-editor with Rosemary Radford Ruerther of Interpreting Post-Modernity: Responses to Radical Orthodoxy. Her essays have appeared in Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War, Postcolonialism and Theology, and Crosscurrents.

• 1. Method to the Missionary Madness; 2. Creations: Telling Time and Place Migrations; 3. Boniface's Mission Don't Mess with the Missionary Clan: The Colensos and the Zulus; 4. We Must Give Ourselves to Voyaging - Regifting The Theological Present; 5. Departures: A Harvest of Tools for Interpreters of Cross-contextual Encounters...

This book makes a significant contribution to a disparate but slowly coalescing 'field'. What are we to make of 'mission' in a thoroughly postcolonial world, particularly when 'the colonies' are talking back? Marion Grau's contribution is significant in that it refuses to turn away from the 'mission' terrain, as many progressive scholars have, thereby surrendering the field to conservative voices. Instead she identifies the mutiplicity of borders and boundaries that constitute the postcolony and then explores what it means to 'do theology', progressively, across this disputed territory.