Crossing cultures in scripture : biblical principles for mission practice /
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| Language: | English |
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Downers Grove :
IVP Books / InterVarsity Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to culture
- Eden: The beginning of human culture
- The Tower of Babel: The beginning of cultural diversity
- Abraham: The father of blessing to all cultures
- Old Testament cultural overview
- Sarah and Hagar: Honor and shame
- Abraham and the Hittites: Needing a favor in a foreign land
- The marriage of Jacob: The consequences of crosscultural ignorance
- Joseph: A victim of crosscultural human trafficking
- Moses: A multicultural leader
- The Israelite community: Tribes, clans, and families
- Rahab: The informed pagan prostitute
- Ruth: A crosscultural conversion
- David and Uriah: The interplay of power-distance
- Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: A crosscultural truth seeker
- Naaman: The dilemma of conflicting religions obligation
- Jonah: Ethnocentrism to a fault
- Jerimiah: Instructions for living in a foreign land
- Daniel: Staying true to God as a transnational student
- Esther: Saving her people from genocide
- Nehemiah: leading a despised cultural minority
- New Testament Cultural Overview
- Jesus: His crosscultural encounters
- Jesus and the Samaritan woman: Contrasting worldviews
- The Lord's Prayer for missionaries
- Jesus' seven marks of crosscultural success
- Pontius Pilate: The clueless crosscultural interrogator
- Acts 1:8: The crosscultural mission of the Church
- The Jerusalem church: Crosscultural conflict management
- Philip: Reaching the "second-class"
- Peter's encounter with Cornelius: Crossing the divide
- Paul in Athens: Contexualizing the message
- Crosscultural advance: Luke's one last word
- The self-contextualizing of the messenger
- 1 Corinthians 13: A guide to crosscultural awareness
- The incarnational missionary
- Crosscultural pilgrimage: Sojourning like Abraham
- Eternity: Doxological diversity.