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To Know and Love God: Method for Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

It is the job of all believers, not just theologians, to serve God by discerning what is true about the crucial issues of life. Our task is to learn more about God. Our privilege is to love God passionately with our minds. Clearly then, spiritual life must have theology as one of its ingredients, but this, by itself, will not guarantee a vibrant spiritual life. Rather, evangelicals must link a...

Given that contextualization originated in a mainline/liberal milieu, evangelicals initially divided on whether to reject the idea or adapt it. In 1974, a group of evangelicals met in Willowbank, Bermuda, and chose to transform the concept of contextualization by defining it carefully and integrating it with evangelical commitments.44 Over time, others confirmed this decision. So evangelicals developed a second cluster of approaches to contextualization.
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