| |
|
|
| |
|
Eternal Word and Changing Worlds: Theology, Anthropology, and Mission in Trialogue
Harvie M. Conn
P & R Publishing (July 1992)
From the Back Cover: Addressed to the “Western, white evangelical community,” Conn's book focuses on the need for a radical reevaluation of Western models for theology and missiology. Specifically, he notes that we are experiencing the birth pangs of a new mode of understanding, shaped by (and shaping) the current trialogue between theology, anthropology and mission. After tracing the earlier history of the interaction, Conn explores the currents and crosscurrents in the trialogue as it struggles with the reexamination of our Western paradigms for theology and mission. Conn concludes with an agenda of key issues on which we must focus if this new understanding is to take a truly Christian shape.
|
 |
|
|
| |
Communication Theory for Christian Witness
Charles H. Kraft
Orbis Books; Revised Edition (1991)
In this revision of a long-enduring classic, Kraft shows once again why he is the anthropologist par excellence of Christian mission and why his books appeal to Christians of both liberal and evangelical theological orientation. He draws upon faith experience and the social sciences to make pastors, preachers, missionaries, and religious educators aware of the mystery of human communication in the service of the God who calls all into communication. Kraft answers the question of how to communicate with those of other cultures so that the message is effectively transmitted and received.
|
 |
|
|
| |
Contextualization: Meanings, Methods, and Models
David J. Hesselgrave, Edward Rommen
William Carey Library Publishers (August 2003)
This classic textbook brings together the meanings, proposals, and tasks involved in contextualization. Hesselgrave and Rommen explore the history of contextualization in the Bible and the Church while examining the proposals of prominent thinkers on this subject. They conclude with their own definition and approach to contextualization. Those who have come to expect expert analysis of contextualization from David Hesselgrave will not be disappointed with this work. Teaming up with Hesselgrave is Ed Rommen and together they bring the labyrinth of meanings, proposals, and tasks of contextualization into clearer focus. The result is “the most comprehensive treatise on the subject produced by evangelical scholars." |
 |
|
|
| |
Christianity In Culture: A Study In Dynamic Biblical Theologizing In Cross-cultural Perspective
Charles H. Kraft, Marguerite G. Kraft
Orbis Books; 25th Anniversary Edition (June 2005)
From the Back Cover: Kraft's book, a standard text in missionary anthropology, brings to the problems of cross-cultural communication-and indeed to the whole range of hermeneutical and theological processes-crucial insights from the sciences that deal with perceiving, conceptualizing, communicating and understanding. Not only missionaries, but theologians and scholars as well, will find this book to be a helpful tool in avoiding the “idolatry of absolutizing our human forms of theology and free us to hear the Word of God afresh.” |
 |
|
|
