Contextual Evangelization in Latin America Between
Contextualization has become well-established as essential to successfully implanting the gospel in another culture. But while contextualization is indeed an excellent strategy, is it a sufficient strategy to lead to movements to Christ? Missionaries have been applying the principles of contextualization, even radical contextualization, for generations. Yet in most instances, these principles... pel, church, and culture, but "contextualization," introduced in 1971,anda companionterm"inculturation" thatemergedin the literaturein 1974,are deeper, more dynamic, and more adequate terms to describe what we are about in mission today.' So I believe we are making some progress in our understanding of the relationship between Gospel, church, and culture, but we have a long way to go in

The Trinity and Contextualization Berith.org
Flemming shows not only how the gospel was contextualized as the church spread to other cultures, but that it is in itself an example of contextualization as the Biblical authors explain the faith to different audiences. Each one is relevant, at the same time being confrontational and transformational. Behind everything is Flemmings commitment to biblical authenticity and divine inspiration... Paul Hiebert refers to this first stage as exegesis of the culture: “The first step in critical contextualization is to study the local culture phenomenologically… The purpose here is to understand 8 16 the old ways, not to judge them.” Only when we have understood the meaning of culture can we relate the Gospel to it in meaningful and relevant ways. Second, there is an important

CONTEXTUALIZING THE ONE GOSPEL IN ANY CULTURE A MODEL
Contextualization has become well-established as essential to successfully implanting the gospel in another culture. But while contextualization is indeed an excellent strategy, is it a sufficient strategy to lead to movements to Christ? Missionaries have been applying the principles of contextualization, even radical contextualization, for generations. Yet in most instances, these principles... In “Contextualization: Theory, Tradition and Method”, Buswell proposes to break down the term into three categories: “contextualization of the Witness, contextualization of the church and its leadership and contextualization of the Word”.4 Contextualization of the Witness, Buswell explains, is a kind of inculturation, that is “to make the Gospel message intelligible in the idiom of

Critical Contextualization and Muslim Conversion
relate a foreign truth to an alien culture. “Culture… is generally seen as a society's folkways, mores, language, art and architecture, and political and economic structures; it is the expression of the society's worldview. Worldview has been described as the way a people looks upon itself and the universe, or the way it sees itself in relationship to all else” (Guthrie, 2000, p. 103... Essentially, contextualization is concerned with how the Gospel and culture relate to one another across geographic space and down through time. Contextualization captures in method and perspective the challenge of relating the Gospel to culture.

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Position Paper on Contextualization in African Missions

• The Virgin of Guadalupe in the Mexican Context
• Cultural Differences and the Communication of the Gospel
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• Position Paper on Contextualization in African Missions

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Missionary Model of Contextualization Mike Goheen, Redeemer University College Ancaster, Ontario, Canada The goal of this paper is to explore the relationship between the gospel, culture, and one aspect of cultural development–scholarship. Understanding the nature of faithful Christian scholarship depends on a proper understanding of the deeper relationship between the gospel and culture

• On the foreign field, this means that the gospel is presented in Western terms that may not be understood by the indigenous peoples. Truth is presented with no regard for the background, experience or thinking of the hearers. In America, we sometimes see churches that refuse to adapt music or programs to the surrounding culture. Gospel truth remains, but it is set in a rigid framework that
• Whether a person is young, mentally challenged, or of a different culture or ethnic group, the Gospel is God’s Gospel, and He made it so that all who receive it by faith will understand His love and forgiveness and have eternal life. . . .
• Pobee calls for the contextualization ofthe gospel in African ritual forms, such as using drums, songs, and xylophones in liturgy, which have the capacity to combine beliefs, emotions, and values, and to grip people in a way verbal explanations alone
• In contextualization the heart of the gospel must be kept as it is encoded in forms that are understood by the people, without making the gospel captive to the contexts. This is an ongoing process

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