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Title: Transforming Culture: A Challenge for Christian Missions by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter ISBN: 0-8010-2178-2 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Reading for Missions Students
Comment: This is a graduate-level missiology text. Lingenfelter offers some important theoretical insights into cross-cultural ministry. The ideas help the missionary to think critically about several areas of the target culture: social order; property; labor and productivity; generosity and exchange; authority and family; authority and community; disputes, conflicts, and communication; and transforming culture. This is important reading for missionaries; if you are in a graduate missions program, this will likely be a text for your worldview course.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good For Understanding the Social Games We Play
Comment: "Transforming Culture" is a useful tool for understanding the social games we play. Lingenfelter points out how we unconsciously follow different social orders at home, at work, at church and in various other situations. He uses plenty of examples from mission experience in a number of cultures to apply this to church work. As a missionary in Brazil, South America I found this book helpful in understanding and interpreting the culture in which I find myself. HOWEVER, I do NOT recommend Lingenfelter's follow-up to this text, entitled "Agents of Transformation." This latter work is thickly technical and impractical, an example of how modern missiology is too often losing sight of reality. Instead, I would heartily recommend "Cross-Cultural Conflict" by Duane Elmer as a good read after "Transforming Culture."
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Title: Agents of Transformation: A Guide for Effective Cross-Cultural Ministry by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter ISBN: 0801020689 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Global Missiology for the 21st Century: Reflections from the Iguassu Dialogue by William David Taylor, Ravi Zacharias ISBN: 0801022592 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The (Magic) Kingdom of God: Christianity and Global Culture Industries by Michael Budde, Michael L. Budde ISBN: 0813330769 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Global Good News : Mission in a New Context by Howard Snyder ISBN: 0687015863 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation by Volf Miroslav, Miroslav Volf ISBN: 0687002826 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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