Communicating Christ cross-culturally : an introduction to missionary communication /

Communicating Christ cross-culturally : an introduction to missionary communication /

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Author / Creator:Hesselgrave, David J.
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, ©1991.
Description:672 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Communication -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Communication.
Missions.
Evangelistic work.
Communication.
Communication -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Evangelistic work.
Missions.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13192454
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ISBN:0310368111
9780310368113
Notes:Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-656) and indexes.
committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Table of Contents:
  • Figures Foreword to First Edition
  • Foreword to Revised Edition
  • Preface
  • Part I. Communication and Mission
  • 1. Communication, the Missionary Problem Par Excellence
  • 2. Man, The Communicating Creature
  • 3. The Legacy of Rhetoric to Christian Communication
  • 4. Perspectives From the Science of Communication
  • 5. The Problem of Meaning
  • 6. Why Do Missionaries Communicate?
  • Part II. Communication and Culture
  • 7. The Role of Culture in Communication
  • 8. Christ and His Communicators Confront Culture
  • 9. Contextualization - Its Theological Roots
  • 10. Cross-Cultural Communication - Classic Categories and Paradigms
  • 11. Cross-Cultural Communciation - Contemporary Categories and Paradigms
  • 12. Respondents of Other Cultures
  • Part III. Worldviews - Ways of Perceiving the World
  • 13. Worldviews and Cross Cultural Communication
  • 14. Communicating Christ Into the Naturalist Worldview
  • 15. Communicating Christ Into the Tribal Worldview
  • 16. Communicating Christ Into the Hindu-Buddhistic Worldview
  • 17. Communicating Christ Into a Chinese Worldview
  • 18. Communicating Christ Into Other Monotheistic Worldviews
  • 19. Communicating Christ Into the Worldviews of Syncretism and Multireligion
  • Part IV. Cognitive processes - Ways of Thinking
  • 20. The Importance of How We Know What We Know
  • 21. Cultural Differences and the Cognitive Process
  • 22. Conceptual Thinking and the Western Missionary
  • 23. Communicating Christ in Cultural Areas Where Intuitional Thinking Predominates
  • 24. Communicating Christ in Cultural Areas Where Concrete Relational Thinking Predominates
  • Part V. Linguistic Forms - Ways of Expressing Ideas
  • 25. The Importance of Language
  • 26. Why Bother to Learn the Language?
  • 27. Learning About Language Learning
  • 28. What Can We Learn From Languages?
  • Part VI. Behavioral Patterns - Ways of Acting
  • 29. From Plato and Aristotle to Edward T. Hall
  • 30. The Missionary and Behavioral Norms
  • 31. Seven Aspects of the "Behavioral Dimension"
  • 32. Where the Action Is
  • Part VII. Social Structures - Ways of Interacting
  • 33. Communicating and Social Orientations
  • 34. Status and Role
  • 35. Kinship: Kindred and Lineage
  • 36. Nonkinship Groupings
  • 37. Urban and Rural Societies
  • 38. Free and Totalitarian Societies
  • Part VIII. Media Influence - Ways of Channeling the Message
  • 39. Media Have Their Own "Messages"
  • 40. Using Simple Media
  • 41. Using Syndetic Media
  • Part IX. Motivational Resources - Ways of Deciding
  • 42. From Persuasion to Elenctics
  • 43. Psychology, Ethnopsychology, and Mission
  • 44. Motivation, Decision Making, and Conversion
  • 45. Receptivity and Missionary Response
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Persons
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Scripture
  • References

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