Jesus and Pocahontas: Gospel, Mission, and National Myth

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In Jesus and Pocahontas, Howard A. Snyder presents an alternative strategy to the traditional story of the success of Christian settlement and mission in Jamestown, Virginia. This alternative approach presents an account of the life and conversion of Pocahontas which is respectful either one of the early Jamestown and Native American accounts. Snyder presents a more complex story than the simple Pilgrim as opposed to Native American theme popularised by past novels. Here, characters who are described are as unpredictable as they’re predictable, and this account challenges not only the myth of Pocahontas itself but also its have an effect on on historical, theological and missional narratives from the time of the first Jamestown settlements. Jesus and Pocahontas recounts the life of Pocahontas from her first sighting of English colonists when she used to be around ten years old, through her love affair with and marriage to John Rolfe and her conversion to the Christian faith and life in England . Woven into every a part of this account are explanations of the a variety of ways during which this story influences our current perception of gospel, mission and nationhood.

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