How can a Christian brought up in the metropolis of Sao Paulo speak the gospel clearly to a
Buddhist raised in the mountains of Tibet? Every missionary confronts the difficulty of cross …

" Culture's influence upon Christianity is easier to discern in retrospect than in prospect. If
history is our guide, one thing is sure: This age will be as syncretistic as any other? How is …

I grew up in the American Midwest, in a small town where most people spoke English with
the same accent. I didn't think we spoke with an accent. I thought Southerners and Long …

Essays in Contextual Theology is a collection of essays that reflect on the doing of
contextual theology from several perspectives. After a general introductory essay …

Charles H. Kraft key question for Christians who work cross-culturally is,“What is God's view
of culture? Is Jewish culture created by God and therefore to be imposed on everyone who …

Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award Honored as one of the" Fifteen Outstanding
Books for Mission Studies" by International Bulletin of Missionary Research From Cairo to …

Appropriate Christianity consists of 28 chapters by 18 authors approaching contextualization
in three dimensions: truth, allegiance and spiritual power. Over the years, there have been …

Agreat deal has been written on contextualization in the past few years (see bibliographies
of Bevans 1985, Gitari 1982, Haleblian 1983, and Lind 1982). I shall not summarize this …

THE TERM “contextualization” broke upon the slumbering world in 1972 with the publication
of the Theological Education Fund (henceforth TEF) report entitled Ministry in Context. The …

In the 1970s theologians in Asia and Africa showed an interest in the way different cultural
contexts influenced the interpretation of Christian belief. Manifestations of contextual …