Christinanity in Culture

Kraft, Charles H.

Christinanity in Culture Charles H. Kraft with Marguerite G. Kraft. - Rev. 25th anniversary ed. - xxxii, 344 p. : ill.

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? -- Appendix. An overview of the models.

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