Culture, communication, and Christianity : A Selection of writings /
Charles H. Kraft
- Pasadena, Calif. : William Carey Library, 2001
- 504 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Introduction -- My pilgrimage in mission -- pt. 1. Anthropology -- Conservative Christians and anthropologists: a clash of worldviews -- God, human beings, culture and the cross-cultural communication of the gospel -- A perspective on culture -- An anthropological apologetic for the homogeneous unit principle in missiology -- Receptor-oriented ethics in cross-cultural intervention -- Anthropological perspectives on American women's issues -- pt. 2. Worldview -- A perspective on worldview -- Worldview in intercultural communication -- Worldview and Bible translation -- pt. 3. Ethnolinguistics -- Church planters and ethnolinguistics -- Toward an ethnography of hausa riddling -- An ethnolinguistic study of hausa epithets -- pt. 4. Communication -- The new wine of independence -- What you heard is not what I meant -- What is God trying to do? -- The incarnation, God's model for cross-cultural communication -- A communicating God -- The place of the receptor in communication -- The power of life involvement -- pt. 5. Theology -- An anthropological approach to theology -- Cultural anthropology: Its meaning for Christian theology -- Can anthropological insight assist Evangelical theology? -- An anthropologist's approach to theology -- Interpreting in cultural context -- Supracultural meanings via cultural forms -- pt. 6. Contextualization -- What is the contextualization of theology? -- Theology and theologies -- Toward a Christian ethnotheology -- Contextualizing communication -- Christian conversion or cultural conversion? -- Let's be Christian about polygamy -- The bearing of the passages in 1 Timothy and Titus on the matter of church leadership in polygamous societies -- Dynamic equivalence churches: An ethnotheological approach to indigeneity -- Measuring indigeneity.
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Missions Theory.Christianity and culture.Intercultural communication Religious aspects Christianity.