August 17, 2013

Contextualizing the Gospel

Here is an insightful quote defining what it means to contextualize the gospel message:

"Contextualization represents the careful and refined use of a people's cultural forms in order that the truth of the gospel can be correctly expressed in their language through a judicious use of their own thought forms."

Arthur Glasser as cited in Shawn B. Redford, "The Contextualization and Translation of Christianity," in Mission in Acts: Ancient Narratives in Contemporary Context, eds. Robert L. Gallagher and Paul Hertig (Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004), 284.

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