Anthropology for Christian Witness
Anthropology for Christian Witness

Author: Charles H. Kraft

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 677

ISBN-13: 1608332403

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"Anthropology for Christian Witness serves as a thorough, basic introduction to the study of anthropology that has been designed specifically for those who plan careers in mission or cross-cultural ministry. The work of Charles H. Kraft, author of the classic Christianity in Culture, and widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Evangelical missionary anthropologists, this new work represents the synthesis of a lifetime of teaching and study. Kraft treats the very basics, including theories of culture and society; an assessment of the various anthropological schools; kinship and family structure, and cross-cultural communication."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Communication Theory for Christian Witness
Communication Theory for Christian Witness

Author: Charles H. Kraft

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 160833239X

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In this revision of a long-enduring classic, Kraft draws upon faith experience and the social sciences to make pastors, preachers, missionaries, and religious educators aware of the mystery of human communication in the service of God who calls all into communion. The question is how to communicate with these other cultures so that the message is effectively transmitted and received? How to we recognize the gaps--of language, tradition, life experience--that separate us and build bridges over them.

Introducing Cultural Anthropology
Introducing Cultural Anthropology

Author: Brian M. Howell

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1493418068

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What is the role of culture in human experience? This concise yet solid introduction to cultural anthropology helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition of a successful textbook covers standard cultural anthropology topics with special attention given to cultural relativism, evolution, and missions. It also includes a new chapter on medical anthropology. Plentiful figures, photos, and sidebars are sprinkled throughout the text, and updated ancillary support materials and teaching aids are available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources.

Paradigm Shifts in Christian Witness
Paradigm Shifts in Christian Witness

Author: Charles Edward van Engen

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781570757716

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If there is one book you are going to read to understand the deep currents affecting Christian life and witness today, this is it. Paradigm Shifts in Christian Witness enlists the world's foremost observers of global Christianity in the task of discerning in short, incisive essays the most important patterns and paradigm shifts as the Christian movement matures beyond both colonialism and post-colonialism as a world faith translated into every culture on earth. It also celebrates the life and work of Charles A. kraft, one of the foremost cultural anthropologists, a man whose insights have helped a generation of cross-cultural missioners and church workers understand the processes involved in mission and the growth of world Christianity.

Worldview for Christian Witness
Worldview for Christian Witness

Author: Charles H. Kraft

Publisher: William Carey Publishing

Published: 2008-06-01

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 087808648X

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In Worldview for Christian Witness, Charles Kraft invites readers to understand REALITY as God sees it by learning to take seriously the insights of other societies. The diversity of cultures can seem obvious, but to really understand the significance of those surface level differences, one needs to understand the deep level assumptions on which they are based.

Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology

Author: Stephen A. Grunlan

Publisher: Zondervan Academic

Published: 2016-11-22

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0310535867

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This volume on cultural anthropology presents a Christian perspective for Bible school students of conservative evangelical backgrounds. The hope is that a sympathetic approach to the problems of cultural diversity throughout the world will help young people overcome typical North American cultural biases and bring understanding and appreciation for the diversities of behavior and thought that exist in a culturally heterogeneous world. Grunlan and Mayers take the position of "functional creationism"; and though they discuss some of the problems implied in traditional interpretations of the age of the world and especially of the creation of the human race, they do not attempt to deal with either physical anthropology or the origins of man. They do, however, attempt to deal meaningfully with the problems posed by biblical absolutism and cultural relativism, and their practice. Concluding chapters with a series of thought-provoking questions should prove to be of real help to both the professional and nonprofessional teacher of anthropology.

Christian Ethics as Witness
Christian Ethics as Witness

Author: David Haddorff

Publisher: James Clarke & Company

Published: 2011-05-26

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0227903021

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Christian ethics is less a system of principles, rules, or even virtues, and more of a free and open-ended responsible witness to God's gracious action to be with and for others and the world. Postmodernity has left us with the risky uncertainty of knowing and doing the good. It also leaves us with the global risks of political violence and terrorism, economic globalization and financial crisis, and environmental destruction and global climate change. How should Christians respond to these problems? Thisbook creatively explores how Christian ethics is best understood as a witness to God's action, thereby providing the ethical framework for addressing the various problematic social issues that put our world at risk. Haddorff develops the notion of witness through a detailed study of Karl Barth's theological ethics. Barth, he argues, provides a language enabling us to know what a Christian ethics of witness actually looks like in both theory and in practice. In correspondence to God's gracious action, Christians remain free to think and act in faith, hope, and love in respondence to their unique circumstances, even in a world at risk. In their witness, Christians remain confident that God has not abandoned the world but loves and cares for its future.

Graceful Evangelism
Graceful Evangelism

Author: Frances S. Adeney

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2010-12

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0801031850

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This comprehensive text shows that despite different views and contexts, Christians can craft a grace-filled approach to sharing God's good news with the world.

Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics
Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics

Author: Aana Marie Vigen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-10-31

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0567710475

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How can qualitative research methods be a tool for social change? Echoing the 'scandal of particularity' at the heart of the Christian tradition, theologians and ethicists involved in ethnographic research draw on the particular to seek out answers to core questions of their discipline. This new edition features a dynamic selection of nuanced and provocative voices in this area of ethics and theology, showing how, in the past decade, the kinds of qualitative methodologies employed have become more varied and sophisticated. The leading and emerging scholars featured in this book have much to share how they approach this kind of work, what they are learning in the process, and what sorts of change is possible as a result. This volume also pays tribute to the life and work of a pathbreaker in qualitative methods for the sake of theological imagination and social change, the Rev. Dr. Melissa D. Browning (1977-2021).