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2021 Annual Meeting

San Antonio, TX

Meeting Begins11/20/2021
Meeting Ends11/23/2021

Call for Papers Opens: 1/20/2021
Call for Papers Closes: 3/24/2021

Requirements for Participation

The Forum on Missional Hermeneutics


Program Unit Type: Affiliate
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Three sessions: (1) Review of Missional Theology: An Introduction (Baker Academic, 2020), by John R. Franke. A leading contributor and shaper of the missional hermeneutics conversation, Franke has recently authored Missional Theology: An Introduction, a sweeping postmodern vision of the process and product of theology done from a missional perspective. The Forum invites paper proposals that explore and assess the book and its import for missional hermeneutics, specifically, and/or theological inquiry, more generally. (2) Missional Hermeneutics and Whiteness. Whiteness has emerged in recent years as both a historical reality and as an ideological construction that has had profound consequences for Christian theology, mission, and biblical interpretation. This session will focus critically on the interaction between the assumptions and intuitions of whiteness and the reading and interpretation of biblical texts, as well as their entailments and consequences in the Christian community and the world. The Forum invites paper proposals that explore and interrogate the influence of whiteness on hermeneutical theory and practice in general and with respect to missional hermeneutics in particular. Proposals may focus on specific texts as well general hermeneutical principles. (3) Reading the Bible Missionally in a “Post-Truth” World. Those claiming the mantle of Jesus in the United States often find themselves opposed to each other—politically, socially, economically, and otherwise. One person’s justice strikes another as injustice. How are biblical terms such as justice, love, mercy, unity, and truth to be understood in this ‘post-truth’ environment? How are they related? This session invites paper proposals that engage biblical texts on such themes, exploring what missional hermeneutics may have to contribute within the context of American Christianity. Papers should specifically acknowledge and address the interpretive relevance of the located-ness of the author.

Program Unit Chairs

John R. Franke
Michael Barram

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