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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...

voice. Furthermore, the culture itself had moved on, leaving the church behind. Out of their prophetic calls emerged the Gospel in Our Culture movement.[3] This movement has combined strong critique of the Western churches for having become outdated with a call for the radical contextualization of the gospel in North America by becoming seeker sensitive. Figure 1.6 View Two-A: Radical Contextualization In recent years there has been a reaction to radical
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