02623cam a2200325 a 4500 8867 8867 40193603 OCoLC 20241126110700.0 981015s1998 miua b 001 0 eng 98047736 0801021782 (pbk.) 9780801021787 (pbk.) (OCoLC)40193603 DLC eng DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP CFT BDX CFT OCLCF XPQ CIRBC BV2063 .L436 1998 266 21 LIN 266 L7555 Lingenfelter, Sherwood G. 15445 Transforming culture : a challenge for Christian mission / Sherwood Lingenfelter. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Books, c1998. 190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-184) and indexes. Transferring or transforming culture? -- A model for analysis of social order -- Property: the silent enemy of church growth -- Labor and productivity: divisive values in mission -- Generosity and exchange: the stone of stumbling in interpersonal relationships -- Authority and family: the foundation of social order -- Authority and community: the context of local churches -- Disputes, conflicts, and communication: to command or to serve? -- Transforming culture. "Lingenfelter's book opens with the valuable point that Christians are pilgrims on earth, participants in the culture of Christ. Going beyond the differences between 'collectivistic' cultures and 'individualistic' cultures, he identifies five different social games (hierarchic, egalitarian, etc.) which determine cultural bias and are used in the rest of the book to help identify ideas such as property, privacy, family and authority, dispute resolution and communication, the concepts of borrowing and repaying, and of labor and patronage. He provides helpful grids and a quiz, all to help the reader to identify his or her own social game. This is all valuable for someone preparing to go into the mission field, as cultural bias is brought into mission along with other baggage. It is a book that should be read carefully and thoroughly, as it could be overwhelming for someone preparing to enter the mission field to recognize the responsibility to be sensitive to the cultural games of the people group while at the same time evangelizing to this group" -- Amazon.com. Missions Anthropological aspects. 2221 Intercultural communication Religious aspects Christianity. 1960 Christianity and culture. 886 ddc BK 3 0 0 ddc 0 0 GBC GBC MNMS 2021-12-16 1 266 LIN 015348 2025-05-01 00:00:00 2023-11-21 c.1 2021-12-16 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 GBC GBC MNMS 2021-12-16 2 266 LIN 015349 2025-05-01 00:00:00 2024-02-22 c.2 2021-12-16 BK