Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2015 One of Seedbed\'s 10 Notable Books from 2015 The Gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans.
Future generations of Native followers of Jesus, and those working crossculturally with them, will be indebted to this work..
Twiss gives voice to the stories of Native followers of Jesus, with perspectives on theology and spirituality plus concrete models for intercultural ministry.
Native leaders reframe the Gospel narrative in light of post-colonization, reincorporating traditional practices and rituals while critiquing and correcting the assumptions of American Christian mythologies.
For Twiss, contextualization is not merely a formula or evangelistic strategy, but rather a relational process of theological and cultural reflection within a local community.
He surveys the painful, complicated history of Christian missions among Indigenous peoples and chronicles more hopeful visions of culturally contextual Native Christian faith.
In his final work, Richard Twiss provides a contextualized Indigenous Expression of the Christian faith among the Native communities of North America.
However, despite the far-reaching effects of colonialism, some Natives have forged culturally authentic ways to follow the way of Jesus.
As a result, to this day few Native Americans are followers of Jesus.
Indigenous cultures were erased in the name of Christianity.
The history of North America is marred by atrocities committed against Native peoples.
Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2015 One of Seedbed\'s 10 Notable Books from 2015 The Gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans
