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The Gospel in Human Contexts: Anthropological Explorations for Contemporary Missions
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Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change
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the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
Donald McGavran’s The Bridges of God: A Study in the Strategy of Missions.11 McGavran had been a missionary in India, and his book studied people groups with massively distinct socio-cultural and religious differences.
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
“Euro-tribal churches
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
Paul’s method in Athens is instructive. He understood the culture and employed that knowledge to identify a starting point for building a bridge to the gospel.
Paul M. Gould • Cultural Apologetics
The influence of postmodernism is making many North American Christians fearful of engaging in evangelism and discipleship activities, lest they be imposing their culturally bound interpretation of Scripture onto other cultures. "Who are we to tell them what the Bible says?"