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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...

the continents (models) by how each relates to the cultural context. In his map, each model exemplifies 1) a relationship between cultural context and theology, and 2) something about the relation between theology and the community in which it takes place. The translation models of Schreiter and Bevans are the same. The core idea is that the context is a vessel into which we insert faith, and proponents focus on the transmission of faith. They do so in a two-step process. The first
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