Crossing Cultures in Scripture – Biblical Principles for Mission Practice

Marvin J. Newell, Patrick Fung (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2016
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4473-9 (ISBN)

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Missionary and missions professor Marvin Newell provides a biblical theology of culture and mission, mining the depths of Scripture to tease out missiological insights and crosscultural perspectives. Organized canonically from Genesis to Revelation, this text reveals how the whole of Scripture speaks to contemporary mission realities.

14th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year, Cross-Cultural Category

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a crosscultural book. Scripture is full of narratives of God's people crossing cultures in pursuit of God's mission. Biblical texts shed light on mission dynamics: Sarah and Hagar functioning in an honor-shame culture, Moses as a multicultural leader, Ruth as a crosscultural conversion, David and Uriah illustrating power distance, the queen of Sheba as an international truth-seeker, Daniel as a transnational student, Paul in Athens as a model of contextualization, and much more.
Missionary and missions professor Marvin Newell provides a biblical theology of culture and mission, mining the depths of Scripture to tease out missiological insights and crosscultural perspectives. Unlike other such books that are organized topically, this text is organized canonically, revealing how the whole of Scripture speaks to contemporary mission realities.
Comprehensive in scope, filled with biblical insight and missional expertise, this book is an essential resource for students and practitioners of crosscultural ministry and mission.

Marvin J. Newell (DMiss, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is senior vice president of Missio Nexus, a network of evangelical mission agencies, churches and training centers in North America. He served as a missionary in East and Southeast Asia for two decades and was professor and chair of the intercultural studies program at Moody Theological Seminary. His books include Commissioned and A Martyr's Grace.

Topical Guide

Foreword by Patrick Fung

Preface

Part I: Foundational Cultural Considerations

1. Introduction to Culture

2. Eden: The Beginning of Human Culture

3. The Tower of Babel: Beginning of Cultural Diversity

4. Abraham: The Father of Blessing for All Cultures

Part II: Crossing Cultures in the Old Testament

5. Sarah and Hagar: Honor and Shame

6. Abraham and The Hittites: Needing a Favor in a Foreign Land

7. The Marriage of Jacob: Consequence of Crosscultural Ignorance

8. Joseph: A Victim of Crosscultural Human Trafficking

9. Moses: A Multicultural leader

10. The Israelite Community: Tribes, Clans and Families

11. Rahab: The Informed Pagan Prostitute

12. Ruth: A Crosscultural Conversion

13. David and Uriah: The Interplay of Power-Distance

14. Solomon and Queen of Sheba: Crosscultural Truth Seeker

15. Naaman: Dilemma of Conflicting Religious Obligation

16. Jonah: Ethnocentrism to a Fault

17. Jeremiah: Instructions for Living in a Foreign Land

18. Daniel: Staying True to God As a Transnational Student

19. Esther: Saving Her People from Genocide

20. Nehemiah: Leading a "Despised" Cultural Minority

Part III: Crossing Cultures in the New Testament

21. Jesus: His Crosscultural Encounters

22. Jesus and the Samaritan Woman: Contrasting Worldviews

23. The Lord's Prayer for Missionaries

24. Jesus' Seven Marks of Crosscultural Success

25. Pontius Pilate: The Clueless Crosscultural Interrogator

26. Acts 1:8: The Crosscultural Mission of the Church

27. The Jerusalem Church: Crosscultural Conflict Management

28. Philip: Reaching the "The Second-Class"

29. Peter's Encounter with Cornelius: Crossing the Great Divide

30. Paul in Athens: Contextualizing the Message

31. Crosscultural Advance: Luke's One Last Word

32. The Self-Contextualizing of the Messenger

33. 1 Corinthians 13: A Guide to Crosscultural Awareness

34. The Incarnational Missionary

35. Crosscultural Pilgrimage: Sojourning Like Abraham

36. Eternity: Doxological Diversity

Appendix A: Sermon Series Guide

Appendix B: Crosscultural Encounters in the Book of Judges

Appendix C: Crosscultural Encounters in the Book of Acts

Appendix D: Frequency of the Quadruplet Terms for Humankind in the Book of Revelation

Bibliography

List of Figures and Tables

Name Index

Scripture Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.12.2016
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	428 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8308-4473-2 / 0830844732
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-4473-9 / 9780830844739
Zustand	Neuware