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Doing Contextualization in Cambodia: Communities of Dialogical Practice
…Contextualization, especially in highly pluralistic Asia, is needed more than ever in the 21st century. The rise of Asia is unfortunately accompanied by a disenchantment with the West and its religion—Christianity. The pandemic is precipitating reverse globalization and intensifying ethnocentric and nationalistic sentiments. However, contextualization is a project in malaise.…
Saving God’s Face: A Chinese Contextualization of Salvation Through Honor and Shame
…contextualization process demonstrated, and superbly applied to the Chinese context. Wu’s book, Saving God's Face, is in dissertation format and includes six chapters. Here is a summary: I. Introduction Helpfully introduces and summarizes each chapter. II. Theological Contextualization in Practice This chapter establishes the need for a model of contextualization that…
Contextualization
…contextualization from many different angles that I’ve wondered what people think when they hear that word. On one extreme, some say, “the gospel needs no contextualization…the message doesn’t change!” Probably, if you are reading Mission Frontiers, you have a different perspective. Still, I’m sure that we each might land…
Are We ACCELERATING or INHIBITING Movements to Christ?
…Contextualization has become well-established as essential to successfully implanting the gospel in another culture. But while contextualization is indeed an excellent strategy, is it a sufficient strategy to lead to movements to Christ? Missionaries have been applying the principles of contextualization, even radical contextualization, for generations. Yet in most instances,…
Are We Accelerating or Inhibiting Movements to Christ?
…Contextualization has become well-established as essential to successfully implanting the gospel in another culture. But while contextualization is indeed an excellent strategy, is it a sufficient strategy to lead to movements to Christ? Missionaries have been applying the principles of contextualization, even radical contextualization, for generations. Yet in most instances,…
Contextualization Among Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists
…contextualization in ministry among Muslims. In 1998 I (John) wrote an article for the Evangelical Missions Quarterly in which I presented a model for comparing six different types of ekklesia or congregations (which I refer to as “Christ-centered communities”) found in the Muslim world today (Travis 1998). These six types…
Making Sure We Are Making Sense
…contextualization means lots of different things in different contexts, the question that started our discussion was: How might local believers understand biblical ideas in their own (indigenous) culture—rather than importing forms from outside cultures?[1] We have all heard Bible translators working in a hot, flat place struggle to communicate a…
Making Jesus Known in Knowable Ways
…Contextualization Efforts in North American, 1989–2009.” It is based on my past 20 years of observation and active participation in Christian missions among First Nations people. The stories by Cheryl, Terry, Bill, Casey and Fern in this issue of Mission Frontiers represent the experiences of many hundreds of other Native…
A New Approach to 950 Million Muslims
…Contextualization" in Interconnect, a periodical on Muslim missions which offers subscriptions by invitation only. The Introduction and Conclusion have not been altered here; key paragraphs from the main body outline were selected which hopefully embody the thrust of each point. The entire article (more than twice as long) will appear…
Learning From Our Mistakes
…Contextualization is the biblical approach used throughout the New Testament to communicate the gospel. It has been used by missionaries all over the world with great success, but it has been largely ignored by those ministering to Native Americans. The majority of Native American pastors and church leaders still hold…
Reviewing the September-October Mission Frontiers
…contextualization teaching (and by implication, cross-cultural ministry teaching more generally) will need to be on how to change the Christianity we find around the world rather than how to introduce the Gospel among the peoples where it doesn’t currently have root. On page nine we read, “Any discussion of this…
Frontiers of Perspective
…Contextualization” We also began to realize that it’s not just how many unreached peoples are left, but also that some large blocs of peoples are superficially touched by gospel witness – and that some “reached” peoples aren’t really reached. Reverse Contextualization – the Re-contextualization of Our Own Traditions We…
Pursuing Faith, Not Religion
…contextualization is all about. And this is an important feature of Christianity that is often misunderstood by advocates as well as potential receptors. Still another part of the reputation of Christianity worldwide is that it is more a matter of thinking than of practicality. For many, our faith has little…
Letters
…contextualization among Native Americans. His comments were spurred by the interview with Richard Twiss entitled, “That the Natives Might Lift Jesus Up,” found on pages 8-11 in our September 2000 issue. Here is an excerpt where Richard Twiss shares his views regarding the use of native drums for worship: “We…
Toward the Edges
…contextualization):I put it crassly, but this is the phase we might call contextualization. In this phase, the barrier is not just about whether or not they are doing things in such a way as to promote the overcoming of barriers of understanding and acceptance. Forms of church, communication issues, and…
School of World Mission AT 50
…Contextualization. In short, I was charged with teaching a culture-positive approach to missions, the very area that had brought about our break with our mission board. This was fulfillment for me—to be able to teach, write and guide missionaries in the relationships between Christianity and culture, and to see missionaries…
…contextualization is a crucial issue…This means explaining the significance of what Christ did on the cross to Buddhists in carefully selected terms that they can understand and are meaningful in their lives. It does not simply mean taking Buddhist terms to replace Christian terms. Doing so will be negatively perceived by Buddhists.” Rather than…
Restoring What Was Lost
…Contextualization of Salvation through Honor and Shame (EMS Dissertation Series) (2013) How honor-shame should influence our understanding of salvation. Available on wciupress.org and Amazon.com One Gospel for All Nations: A Practical Approach to Biblical Contextualization (January 2015) A practical, biblically faithful and culturally meaningful method for contextualizing the gospel in…
Longing for the Golden City
…contextualization and indigenization. Contextualization is the form and concepts outsiders choose to bridge the gospel cross-culturally as Acts 17 clearly shows. In regards to contextualization and indigenization, mission workers in the Muslim and Hindu context are light years ahead of those of us in the Buddhist context. [4] Ten things…
Four Ways Culture & Worship Relate
…contextualization. SECOND: CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IS CONTEXTUAL As we walked around his home island of Sulawesi, my Indonesian friend remarked, “You’ve never seen anything like this.” And he was right. I’d never seen architecture so unique and magnificent. The traditional homes of this particular people group are built on stilts of…