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The Gospel in Human Contexts: Anthropological Explorations for Contemporary Missions is unavailable, but you can change that!

While the gospel is timeless truth, it enters into ever-changing and widely varied human contexts. The missionary who desires to meaningfully communicate the gospel to particular humans needs to understand people and the particular influences--social, cultural, psychological, and ecological--that shape them. Further, we must understand ourselves and the influences that have shaped us, since our...

only begun to explore under the topics of truth, dialogue, religious pluralism, relativism, contextualization, ecumenism, partnership, and local and global theologies. How should churches around the world relate to one another when there are great social, cultural, and theological differences as well as a desperate need to live together in peace? How do we respond to religious differences when we are committed to the truth of the gospel and the priesthood of all believers? What does globalization
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