The Gospel in Human Contexts: Anthropological Explorations for Contemporary Missions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780801036811)

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.

Author: Paul G. Hiebert
ISBN-10: 080103681X
ISBN-13: 9780801036811
Publisher: Baker Academic
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d