Children of the Waters: Whirlpools, Waiora, Baptism and Missio Dei
From space, the Pacific glitters in ocean blue. What might the world’s largest ocean contribute to missio Dei? A spiral methodology is used to trace connections between the baptism of Jesus, early Christian art, recent legal (Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal) research and indigenous knowing, including oc...
| Autres titres: | Special Issue: "Missio Dei in Context: Oceania Region Perspectives" |
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| Auteurs: | ; |
| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
[2020]
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| Dans: |
Mission studies
Année: 2020, Volume: 37, Numéro: 1, Pages: 5-28 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Māori
B Baptism B Indigenous B Environment (Art) B early Christian art B Missio Dei |
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| Résumé: | From space, the Pacific glitters in ocean blue. What might the world’s largest ocean contribute to missio Dei? A spiral methodology is used to trace connections between the baptism of Jesus, early Christian art, recent legal (Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal) research and indigenous knowing, including ocean voyaging, ancestor understandings of whirlpools, Māori water rites and oral history of river beings (taniwha).The argument is that indigenous Oceanic (Māori) understandings of water, in conversation with baptismal narratives, present missio Dei as an immersion in God. Mission is located not in the activity of the church - and hence mission expansion as part of European colonisation - but in the being and becoming of God. Creation and redemption are interconnected and an environmental ethic is expected. Children of the waters (ngā tamariki o te Moana nui a Kiwa) listen to creation’s voice (taniwha speaking) and act for the life (waiora) of water. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341694 |