This article argues that there is a growing discrepancy between theological and critical approaches to mission: while critical mission studies have abandoned teleological frameworks for the narration of mission history, historico-theological teleologies still prove to be influential in theological conceptualizations of mission. As a result, there is a lack of theological language that can respond constructively to the interdisciplinary re-reading of mission history – mission theology is immunized from the interdisciplinary critique of mission history. Based on this diagnosis, this article asks what kind of theological approach can account for the complex entanglements of Christian knowledge production into the deadly politics of modern colonialism. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that intersects theology and postcolonial trauma studies, it investigates the narratives of decolonization that emerged around the recent renovation of the Afrika Museum in Brussels, Belgium, and develops from this analysis building blocks towards a ‘spectral theology.’

本文认为，神学和批判性方法之间的差异越来越大：尽管批判性的任务研究已经放弃了对任务历史进行叙述的目的论框架，但历史神学目的论仍证明对任务的神学概念具有影响力。结果，缺乏一种神学语言，可以对跨学科的任务历史重读做出建设性的回应–任务神学不受跨学科的任务历史批判的影响。基于这种诊断，本文提出了什么样的神学方法可以解释基督教知识生产与现代殖民主义的致命政治之间的复杂纠缠。采取与神学和后殖民创伤研究相交的跨学科方法，