Teaching Across Cultures: Contextualizing Education for Global Mission
By James E. Plueddemann
By James E. Plueddemann
By Brian A. DeVries
(an excerpt from The Global Gospel by Werner Mischke, chapter 4.2) One of the most widely accepted models for contextualizing the Christian faith was developed by the acclaimed missiologist Paul Hiebert. He called it “critical contextualization”. It has four steps.1 Step 1: Exegete the host culture. Cross-cultural workers study the culture phenomenologically. Suspending judgment, they gather . . . read more
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