Lexington Books
Pages: 152
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978-1-66696-259-8 • Hardback • July 2024 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-66696-260-4 • eBook • July 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Michael Blanco is the senior director of diversity and inclusion operations at Michigan Technological University.
Foreword, Jeffrey Lyon
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Problem of Orthodoxy
Chapter 2: The Landscape of Orthodoxy
Chapter 3: Crosscurrents to Orthodoxy
Chapter 4: Theology Considered
Chapter 5: The Legacy of Orthodoxy
Chapter 6: Counternarratives to Orthodoxy
Conclusion and Reflections
Bibliography
About the Author
As an indigenous Missiologist and member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi tribe, I look at everything with questions. So much of the missions among the indigenous peoples has been dominated by one cultural perspective for far too long. It is not so much the problem of Orthodoxy but the issue of whose orthodoxy are we speaking of. Michael Blanco’s The Problem of Orthodoxy: Evangelicals at the Crossroads of Truth and Power should be a must read for anyone struggling with the powers in their denominational circles controlling the way we must approach indigenous theology, missions, and ecclesiology.
— Casey Church, NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community, currently pastor of Good Medicine Way