Culture, communication, and Christianity : a selection of writings /
by Charles H. Kraft.
- Pasadena, Calif. : William Carey Library, c2001.
- 504 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 464-473) and index. "Bibliography of Charles H. Kraft"--P. 474-488.
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.