An Emancipatory Pedagogy of Jesus: Toward a Decolonizing Epistemology of Education and Theology

An Emancipatory Pedagogy of Jesus: Towards a Decolonizing Epistemology of Education and Theology explores the emancipatory power of love demonstrated by Jesus Christ, emphasizing the importance of culture, identity development, spirituality, and ethnicity in the intellectual, academic, and spiritual growth of oppressed and marginalized populations. It presents Jesus as a critical educator who was bi-cultural, marginalized, and oppressed, and offers a unique perspective on Jesus as the teacher. The book explores the pedagogical and theological offerings of Jesus and their contributions to social movements such as Liberation Theology and the fight for Justice and Civil Rights. It emphasizes the fulfillment of theology and education through an emancipatory praxis for liberation, reconciling humanity back to God and God to humanity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 150 pages
Publication date: 28 June 2021
Publisher: University Press of America

An in-depth exploration of the emancipatory power of love demonstrated and exemplified in the life, pedagogy, and praxis of Jesus Christ is presented in the book "An Emancipatory Pedagogy of Jesus: Towards a Decolonizing Epistemology of Education and Theology." This book takes its readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey that reveals the significance of culture, identity development, spirituality, and ethnicity in the intellectual, academic, and spiritual growth of Black, bi-cultural, and indigenous populations who have been oppressed and marginalized. It courageously presents Jesus Christ as the ultimate critical educator, who, like many others, was bi-cultural, marginalized, and oppressed. This book offers a distinctive perspective on Jesus as a teacher. Scholarship often focuses solely on Jesus' ethics and teachings, but this work aims to uncover the emancipatory power of his pedagogy and its foundational contributions to social movements like Liberation Theology in Latin America and the fight for Justice and Civil Rights for African Americans in North America. By examining both the theological and pedagogical offerings of Jesus, this book seeks to determine not only what can be learned from a critical pedagogy of Jesus but also who benefits most from engaging in his praxis.

Through Jesus' masterful integration of theology and pedagogy, he is portrayed as the literal embodiment of liberation from all forms of oppression. It is in Jesus' emancipatory pedagogy that theology and education find their greatest fulfillment through an emancipatory praxis for liberation, ultimately resulting in a pedagogy that reconciles humanity back to God and God to humanity.

Weight: 404g
Dimension: 243 x 161 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780761872641