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Contextualization in World Missions: Mapping and Assessing Evangelical Models is unavailable, but you can change that!

Contextualization is the art of translating ideas into a particular situation, place, or culture. It is fundamental to communication, which makes contextualization essential in missions. This textbook pulls together and maps the variety of evangelical approaches to contextualization. Introductory classes on contextualization and missionary preparation institutes will appreciate this valuable...

A fourth identifier of good process is that it is interdisciplinary or systemic in its approach to culture (Moreau 2005, 324) and theology (Hiebert 2008; 2009). No single discipline can avoid the danger of reductionism. Contextual process will incorporate voices and perspectives from a variety of disciplines in healthy dialogue. As Darrell Whiteman notes: Contextualization … transforms the local community and it connects us to the larger global community. In this way it enlarges our understanding
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