The Gospel in Human Contexts: Anthropological Explorations for Contemporary Missions

While the gospel is timeless truth, it enters into ever-changing and widely varied human contexts. In order to meaningfully communicate the gospel to particular humans, those involved in cross-cultural ministry need 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 own contexts influence how we understand and transmit the gospel message. Therefore, we must master not only the skill of biblical interpretation but also the skill of human interpretation. That task is the topic of this book, the summation of a lifetime of experience and thinking by a world-renowned missiologist and anthropologist, the late Paul Hiebert.

• Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective
• Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends (Cultural Exegesis)
• Modern Babylon?: Prostituting Children in Thailand (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives)
• Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out and Fitting In Around the World
• Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission
• Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding Of How People Change
• Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages
• Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church Is Influencing the Way We Think about and Discuss Theology
• Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today (American Society of Missiology Series)
• Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World (Youth, Family, and Culture)