Ekaputra Tupamahu
Biographic Data
| ID | 9200921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ekaputra Tupamahu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ekaputra |
| FAMILY NAME | Tupamahu |
| SIGNATURE | TUPAMAHU E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland Seminary Portland, Oregon USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2973-5230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Genealogy of the “Great Commission”
This study reconstructs a genealogy of the phrase “Great Commission,” a term widely used today to refer to Matthew 28:18–20. Although often assumed to be a neutral mobilizing slogan, the phrase originated in the late sixteenth century and gradually acquired theological authority through its entanglement with ecclesial, imperial, and missionary discourses. Drawing on early modern English texts, this study traces the phrase from its early appearanc…
Is Acts Really “The Most Overtly Missionary Book”
The aim of this article is twofold: first, to challenge the white reading of the book of Acts, and second, to offer an alternative reading by placing the story of the marginalized people, the colonized people, at the center. The first part of this article interrogates how white pentecostal scholars read the book of Acts as a missionary book and identify themselves with the disciples in the book of Acts. After presenting the problems with this rea…
Contesting Languages
How did the early followers of Jesus struggle with the many languages around them? This book argues that the idea that speaking tongue(s) is an ecstatic unintelligible phenomenon is an invention of German romantic-nationalist scholarship. It proposes another way of looking at this phenomenon through the lenses of immigration and the politics of language. Tongue(s) is a phenomenon of heteroglossia (the multiplicity of languages) and a site of poli…
Ephesians 6
Tongues as a Site of Subversion
In this article I discuss the close relationship between colonialism and the expansion of language. Language is always politically contested. A language can become an international language today because it has a long history of colonization and subjugation of other groups of people. I analyze the sociopolitical dimension of tongues by engaging, among others, linguist Roman Jakobson, philosopher Michel Foucault, and cultural theorist Judith Butle…
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Tongues as a Site of Subversion
In this article I discuss the close relationship between colonialism and the expansion of language. Language is always politically contested. A language can become an international language today because it has a long history of colonization and subjugation of other groups of people. I analyze the sociopolitical dimension of tongues by engaging, among others, linguist Roman Jakobson, philosopher Michel Foucault, and cultural theorist Judith Butle…
Contesting Languages
How did the early followers of Jesus struggle with the many languages around them? This book argues that the idea that speaking tongue(s) is an ecstatic unintelligible phenomenon is an invention of German romantic-nationalist scholarship. It proposes another way of looking at this phenomenon through the lenses of immigration and the politics of language. Tongue(s) is a phenomenon of heteroglossia (the multiplicity of languages) and a site of poli…
Ephesians 6
Is Acts Really “The Most Overtly Missionary Book”
The aim of this article is twofold: first, to challenge the white reading of the book of Acts, and second, to offer an alternative reading by placing the story of the marginalized people, the colonized people, at the center. The first part of this article interrogates how white pentecostal scholars read the book of Acts as a missionary book and identify themselves with the disciples in the book of Acts. After presenting the problems with this rea…
A Genealogy of the “Great Commission”
This study reconstructs a genealogy of the phrase “Great Commission,” a term widely used today to refer to Matthew 28:18–20. Although often assumed to be a neutral mobilizing slogan, the phrase originated in the late sixteenth century and gradually acquired theological authority through its entanglement with ecclesial, imperial, and missionary discourses. Drawing on early modern English texts, this study traces the phrase from its early appearanc…
Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works)