Christianity in culture :

Kraft, Charles H.

Christianity in culture : a study in dynamic biblical theologizing in cross cultural perspective / Charles H. Kraft with Marguerite G. Kraft. - Revised 25th anniversary ed. - Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2005. - xxxii, 344 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-324) and indexes.

Contents: Part 1. The perspective. Cases of need ; Mirrored reality --
Part 2. The cultural matrix. Human beings in culture ; Cultural forms, patterns, and processes ; Human commonality --
Part 3. God through culture. God's attitude toward culture ; Supracultural meanings via cultural forms ; Communicating within culture --
Part 4. The dynamics of revelation. receptor-oriented revelation ; God's inspired casebook ; The components of revelation ; Revealed through culture --
Part 5. The constant message in alternative forms. Dynamic-equivalence translation of the casebook ; Dynamic/meaning-equivalence transculturation of the message ; Dynamic-equivalence theologizing --
Part 6. The message affects the forms. Dynamic-equivalence "churchness" ; Christian conversion as a dynamic process ; Transforming culture with God ; Principals for transforming culture with God ; An Apostolic faith? --

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Christianity and culture.

BR 115.C8 / K64 2005

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