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Contextualizando al Verdadero Pastor
Desarrollo de Estrategias Creativas Para Llegar a Estas Personas en Movimiento

January 01, 2017 by Elizabeth Paul & Thomas Bentley

Tags: cnetral asia, contextualization, kyrgyz

No muy lejos de la ciudad donde vivimos, los pastores semi-nómadas pueblan los valles de las altas montañas de Asia Central. Estas queridas personas gracias a las grandes manadas de cabras y yaks a...

Mobilistically Speaking
Further Reflections

January 01, 2015 by Greg Parsons

Tags: communication, contextualization, language, mobilization

The story is told of two shoe salesmen who went to a rural, undeveloped part of the world. One came back and said it was hopeless, “No one wears shoes...we can’t sell anything here.” The other...

A Case for Contextualized, Artistic
 Communication in Mission
From the Editor

September 01, 2014 by Robin Harris

Tags: arts, contextualization, ethnodoxology, mission, music, worship

ETHNO-WHAT?

What did you think when you saw that strange new word—ethnodoxology—on the cover of Mission Frontiers? If it is unfamiliar now, it won’t be when you’re done with this issue. Twenty...

Ethnodoxology
Worship and Mission for the Global Church

September 01, 2014 by

Tags: art, arts, contextualization, missions, music, worship

Four Ways Culture & Worship Relate

September 01, 2014 by Anne Zaki

Tags: contextualization, culture, nairobi statement, worship

Christianity, like every other religion, was born in a particular historical and cultural context, in a particular time and place.1 For Christianity, this context happened to be the ancient Middle...

Saving God’s Face: A Chinese Contextualization of Salvation Through Honor and Shame
A Book Review

May 01, 2014 by Bill Bjoraker

Tags: chinese, contextualization, guilt, honor, majority world, shame

 “There is no such thing as theology; there is only contextualized theology.” (quoting Stephen Bevans, p.1)

 “Imagine coming to the Bible with Eastern eyes.” (p.55)

“HS [honor and shame]...

Bible Translations for Muslim Readers

February 07, 2011 by Vern Sheridan Poythress

Tags: bible, bible translation, contextualization, muslim

What wisdom is needed in producing Bible translations for Muslims? An article recently published in Christianity Today by Collin Hansen, entitled "The Son and the Crescent" (February, 2011): 19-23...

Learning From Our Mistakes

September 01, 2010 by Rick Wood

Tags: contextualization, missionary, syncretism

What happens when missionaries teach that the only way of salvation is for a people to completely reject their own culture and accept the “Christian” culture of the missionary? What is the result...

Making Jesus Known
Native Americans Lead the Way in Reaching Their Own People

September 01, 2010 by Vern Sheridan Poythress

Tags: contextualization, native american, syncretism

Disruptive Missiology Part 3
In Communication, Context is Everything

November 01, 2007 by Greg Parsons

Tags: contextualization, missiology

When I was in grade school, one of my teachers asked me if I was a Christian. It was the end of the school year as I recall, and in my excited attempt to witness at this apparent “open door” I...

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