Contextualization
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Contextualization
Author: David J. Hesselgrave
language: en
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Release Date: 2000-09-01
Meanings, Methods, and Models Contextualization: Meanings, Methods, and Models is a classic textbook that brings together the meanings, proposals, and tasks involved in contextualization. The authors trace its historical development, beginning with its roots in the Bible and early Church. They examine how cultural, linguistic, and theological elements influence the way the Gospel is communicated across different contexts. The book highlights how the Church has wrestled with expressing timeless truths in culturally relevant ways, while maintaining biblical integrity. Hesselgrave and Rommen engage with the ideas of key theologians and missiologists, evaluating a range of contextualization models—from traditional mission methods to more adaptive, culture-centered approaches. They provide a balanced critique of these proposals, identifying both strengths and limitations. The authors conclude by offering their own definition and approach to contextualization—one that is both faithful to Scripture and practically effective for global mission work today.
Contextualization
Author: David J. Hesselgrave
language: en
Publisher: William Carey Library
Release Date: 2000
This expert analysis of contextualization from David Hesselgrave and Ed Rommen skillfully brings the meanings, proposals, and tasks of contextualization into clearer focus, creating the most comprehensive treatise on the subject produced by evangelical scholars.
Contextualization
Author: Bruce J. Nicholls
language: en
Publisher: Regent College Publishing
Release Date: 2003
How can a Christian brought up in the metropolis of Sao Paulo speak the gospel clearly to a Buddhist raised in the mountains of Tibet? Every missionary confronts the difficulty of cross-cultural communication. But missionaries from the Third World, Bruce Nicholls says, must understand four cultures--"the Bible's, the Western missionaries' who first brought the gospel, their own, and the people's to whom they take the gospel." Recognizing this, Nicholls proposes that the gospel be contextualized, that is, presented in forms which are characteristic of the culture to which the gospel is taken. The problem is to find the right cultural forms and thus keep the gospel message both clear and biblical. Nicholls deals with tough social, theological and hermeneutical questions and proposes a direction for missions in the future. Bruce J. Nicholls, formerly executive secretary of the World Evangelical Fellowship Theological Commission, was a career missionary in India working in theological education and in pastoral ministry with the Church of North India. He was also Editor of the Evangelical Review of Theology for 18 years and is now Editor of the Asia Bible Commentary series.