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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...

constructed realities without ensuring some means by which we can affirm or deny the correspondence of those realities to REALITY. The ability to affirm or deny such correspondence has been critical to evangelicals historically. We perceive a denial of biblical authority when Kraft argues that affirming or denying correspondence is not as important as the process of God’s revealing himself to people. We fear that Kraft’s de-linking of meaning and form or message removes a safeguard and opens the
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