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Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission is unavailable, but you can change that!

From Cairo to Calcutta, from Cochabamba to Columbus, Christians are engaged in a conversation about how to speak and live the gospel in today's traditional, modern and emergent cultures. The technical term for their efforts is contextualization. Missionary theorists have pondered and written on it at length. More and more, those who do theology in the West are also trying to discover new ways of...

there are different perceptions of what it is about.6 For example, some writers speak of contextualization as a hermeneutical activity that is virtually equivalent to what has traditionally been thought of as application of Scripture.7 Others define it theologically as the process of developing local theologies in a context of rapid social and cultural change.8 For still others, it is a missiological activity that involves the crosscultural communication of the gospel and various other functions
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