Communicating Christ cross-culturally
By: David J. Hesselgrave ; foreword by Kenneth S. Kantzer
Series: Contemporary evangelical perspectives
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780310366911
Copyright date: 1978
Subjects: Communication -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Communication.; Evangelistic work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part one : Communication and mission.; title: Communication, the missionary problem par excellence; title: Man, the communicating creature; title: The legacy of rhetoric to Christian communication; title: Perspectives from the science of communication; title: The meaning of linguistic symbols; title: Why do missionaries communicate?; title: Part two : Communication and culture.; title: The role of culture in communication; title: Christ and his communicators confront culture; title: Cross-cultural identification; title: "Possessing" a culture for Christ; title: Culture and audience response; title: Part three : world views : ways of perceiving the world.; title: World view as a starting point for missionary communication; title: World view and contextualization; title: Communicating Christ into the naturalist world view; title: Communicating Christ into the tribal world view; title: Communicating Christ into the Hindu-Buddhistic world view; title: Communicating Christ into a Chinese world view; title: Communicating Christ into other monotheistic world views; title: Communicating Christ into the world views of syncretism and multireligion; title: Part four : Cognitive processes : ways of thinking.; title: The importance of how we know what we know; title: Cultural differences and the cognitive process; title: Conceptual thinking and the Western missionary; title: Communicating Christ in cultural areas where intuitional thinking predominates; title: Communicating Christ in cultural areas where concrete relational thinking predominates; title: Part five : Linguistic forms : ways of expressing ideas.; title: The importance of language; title: Why bother to learn a foreign language?; title: How to go about language learning; title: How far can language take us?; title: Part six : Behavioral patterns : ways of acting.; title: From Plato and Aristotle to Edward T. Hall; title: The missionary and behavioral norms; title: Seven aspects of the "behavioral dimension"; title: Where the action is; title: Part seven : Social structures : ways of interacting.; title: Communication and societal orientations; title: Status and role; title: Kinship : kindred and lineage; title: Nonkinship groupings; title: Urban and rural societies; title: Free and totalitarian societies; title: Part eight : Media influence : ways of channeling the message.; title: Media have their own "messages"; title: The imprint of media on messages; title: Mass media and mission; title: Part nine : Motivational sources : ways of deciding.; title: From persuasion to elenctics; title: Psychology, ethnopsychology, and mission; title: Motivation and decision making; title: Receptivity and missionary response