| Título : | Christianity in culture | | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | | Autores: | Kraft, Charles, Autor | | Mención de edición: | 8° | | Editorial: | Orbis | | Fecha de publicación: | 1990 | | Número de páginas: | 445 páginas | | Nota general: | <27284> | | Idioma : | Inglés | | Clasificación: | 202/K79/(ING) | | Resumen: | Foreword by Bernard Ramm X
Preface XII
List of figures XIV
Outline of models and Their components XIV
Bible versions XVIII
PART 1 THE PERSPECTIVE
1. Cases of need 3
Case one: The career Missionary 3
Caste two: The author’s 6
The aims of the book 12
Needs in view: A summary and an elaboration 13
2. Mirrored Reality 23
Towars an answer 23
Reality “out there” versus the conceptual models of that
reality in people’s heads 25
Characteristics of conceptual models 31
A biblical Christian model (model 2) 33
Alternative mirrors 41
PART 2 THE CULTURAL MATRIX
3. Human beings in culture 45
The culture concept (model 3a) 45
Cultural validity (model 3b) 49
Worldview (model 3c) 53
Different worldview assumptions lead to different conclusions 57
Are we determined by culture? 60
4. Cultural forms, patterns and processes 64
Forms, functions, meanings and usage (model 3d) 64
Cultural patterning and Cultural performance (model 3e) 69
The process of culture change (model 3f) 72
Felt needs and reference points for culture change 77
5. Human commonality 81
Cultural diversity and human commonality (model 3g) 81
Forms, Functions, Meanings, and human commonality 89
Evaluating cultural forms 90
Fitting nonrelative meanings to relative cultural forms 94
PART 3 GOD THROUGH CULTURE
6. God’s attitude toward culture 103
God the originator of culture? 103
The god-against-culture position 104
Two god-in-culture positions 106
Five god-above-culture positions 108
The god-above-but-through-culture position (model 4a) 113
7. Supracultural meanings via cultural forms 116
Anthropologically informed theology 116
The supracultural and the cultural (model 4d) 120
Biblical cultural relativism (model 4e) 124
Adequate, though never absolute,
human perception of supracutural thruth (model 5a) 129
“Plain meanings” and “Interpretational reflexes” 131
Beyond grammatico-historical to ethnologuistic interpretation (model 5b) 134
Differing levels of abstraction (model 5c) 139
“Two-culture dialogic” interpretation (model 5d) 143
8. Communicating within culture 147
Basic principles of communication 147
Employing the frame-of-reference principle (model 7b) 150
The communicator-credibility principle (model 7c) 156
The message-credibility principle (model 7d) 159
The discovery principle (model 7e) 163
Summary of the principles 164
PART 4 THE DYNAMICS OF REVELATION
9. Receptor-oriented revelation 169
Communicating across the supracultural-cultural gap (model 8) 169
The incarnation: a case study in receptor-oriented revelation 173
Revelation: static or dynamic? 178
The bible as the measure of revelation 187
Summary 192
10. God’s inspired casebook 194
Constancy of method (model 10a) 194
The bible as inspired classic casebook (model 9d) 198
A human word as well as divine word (model 9e) 202
A dynamic view of scriptural inspiration (model 9f) 205
Truth with impact (model 9g) 213
11. The components of Revelation 216
The informational base of revelation 216
Activating revelational information 222
The will of the receptors 225
The constancy of the message (model 10b) 227
Cumulative information in multicultural format (models 8k and 9h) 235
12. Revealed through culture 239
Starting pinnt plus process (model 10 c) 239
Which ideals? A case study in a Cross-cultural approach to sin 245
What about those who are today “informationally b.c.”? (model 10g) 253
PART 5 THE CONSTANT MESSAGE IN ALTERNATIVE FORMS
13. Dynamic-quivalence translation of the Casebook 261
Hearer-oriented translation 262
Formal correspondence: an inadequate model 264
The dynamic-equivalende model 269
14. Dynamic-quivalence transculturation of the message 276
We participate in God’s communication 276
A dinamically equivalent message 280
Problems of differential perception in transculturation 287
15. Dynamic-equivalence theologizing 291
Producing theology 291
Communicating Theology 297
Theologizing and culture-bound perception 300
Nonwestern theologizing: A Case Study 305
PART 6 THE MESSAGE AFFECTS THE FORMS
16. Dynamic-equivalence churchness 315
The people of god within culture 315
Dynamic-quivalence transculturation of the church (model 11d) 318
Dynamic equivalente to biblical models 322
Dynamically equivalente church leadership: A case of study 323
17. Christian conversion as a dynamic process 328
Inadequate models 328
The biblical concept of conversion 333
Constants in the Conversion process 334
Cultural conversion versus Christian conversion 339
18. Transforming culture with god 345
Transformational culture change (model 13) 245
Re-evaluation/reinterpretation (model 13b) and rehabituation (model 13c)
in the transformation process 349
Working with culture to Bring about transformation (model 13d) 353
A case study of conceptual transformation 355
19. Principles for transforming culture with god 360
Principles for the outside advocate 360
Factors influencing the advocacy of change 366
Movements and cultural transformation 370
Principles for Insiders: What to do about the “generation gap” 377
20. An apostolic faith? 382
An apostolic faith? 382
A personal postscript 385
Appendix: An overview of the models and submodels 389
Bibliography of references cited 405
Index of biblical references 427
Index of persons 430
Subject index 433 |
Christianity in culture [texto impreso] / Kraft, Charles, Autor . - 8° . - [S.l.] : Orbis, 1990 . - 445 páginas. <27284> Idioma : Inglés | Clasificación: | 202/K79/(ING) | | Resumen: | Foreword by Bernard Ramm X
Preface XII
List of figures XIV
Outline of models and Their components XIV
Bible versions XVIII
PART 1 THE PERSPECTIVE
1. Cases of need 3
Case one: The career Missionary 3
Caste two: The author’s 6
The aims of the book 12
Needs in view: A summary and an elaboration 13
2. Mirrored Reality 23
Towars an answer 23
Reality “out there” versus the conceptual models of that
reality in people’s heads 25
Characteristics of conceptual models 31
A biblical Christian model (model 2) 33
Alternative mirrors 41
PART 2 THE CULTURAL MATRIX
3. Human beings in culture 45
The culture concept (model 3a) 45
Cultural validity (model 3b) 49
Worldview (model 3c) 53
Different worldview assumptions lead to different conclusions 57
Are we determined by culture? 60
4. Cultural forms, patterns and processes 64
Forms, functions, meanings and usage (model 3d) 64
Cultural patterning and Cultural performance (model 3e) 69
The process of culture change (model 3f) 72
Felt needs and reference points for culture change 77
5. Human commonality 81
Cultural diversity and human commonality (model 3g) 81
Forms, Functions, Meanings, and human commonality 89
Evaluating cultural forms 90
Fitting nonrelative meanings to relative cultural forms 94
PART 3 GOD THROUGH CULTURE
6. God’s attitude toward culture 103
God the originator of culture? 103
The god-against-culture position 104
Two god-in-culture positions 106
Five god-above-culture positions 108
The god-above-but-through-culture position (model 4a) 113
7. Supracultural meanings via cultural forms 116
Anthropologically informed theology 116
The supracultural and the cultural (model 4d) 120
Biblical cultural relativism (model 4e) 124
Adequate, though never absolute,
human perception of supracutural thruth (model 5a) 129
“Plain meanings” and “Interpretational reflexes” 131
Beyond grammatico-historical to ethnologuistic interpretation (model 5b) 134
Differing levels of abstraction (model 5c) 139
“Two-culture dialogic” interpretation (model 5d) 143
8. Communicating within culture 147
Basic principles of communication 147
Employing the frame-of-reference principle (model 7b) 150
The communicator-credibility principle (model 7c) 156
The message-credibility principle (model 7d) 159
The discovery principle (model 7e) 163
Summary of the principles 164
PART 4 THE DYNAMICS OF REVELATION
9. Receptor-oriented revelation 169
Communicating across the supracultural-cultural gap (model 8) 169
The incarnation: a case study in receptor-oriented revelation 173
Revelation: static or dynamic? 178
The bible as the measure of revelation 187
Summary 192
10. God’s inspired casebook 194
Constancy of method (model 10a) 194
The bible as inspired classic casebook (model 9d) 198
A human word as well as divine word (model 9e) 202
A dynamic view of scriptural inspiration (model 9f) 205
Truth with impact (model 9g) 213
11. The components of Revelation 216
The informational base of revelation 216
Activating revelational information 222
The will of the receptors 225
The constancy of the message (model 10b) 227
Cumulative information in multicultural format (models 8k and 9h) 235
12. Revealed through culture 239
Starting pinnt plus process (model 10 c) 239
Which ideals? A case study in a Cross-cultural approach to sin 245
What about those who are today “informationally b.c.”? (model 10g) 253
PART 5 THE CONSTANT MESSAGE IN ALTERNATIVE FORMS
13. Dynamic-quivalence translation of the Casebook 261
Hearer-oriented translation 262
Formal correspondence: an inadequate model 264
The dynamic-equivalende model 269
14. Dynamic-quivalence transculturation of the message 276
We participate in God’s communication 276
A dinamically equivalent message 280
Problems of differential perception in transculturation 287
15. Dynamic-equivalence theologizing 291
Producing theology 291
Communicating Theology 297
Theologizing and culture-bound perception 300
Nonwestern theologizing: A Case Study 305
PART 6 THE MESSAGE AFFECTS THE FORMS
16. Dynamic-equivalence churchness 315
The people of god within culture 315
Dynamic-quivalence transculturation of the church (model 11d) 318
Dynamic equivalente to biblical models 322
Dynamically equivalente church leadership: A case of study 323
17. Christian conversion as a dynamic process 328
Inadequate models 328
The biblical concept of conversion 333
Constants in the Conversion process 334
Cultural conversion versus Christian conversion 339
18. Transforming culture with god 345
Transformational culture change (model 13) 245
Re-evaluation/reinterpretation (model 13b) and rehabituation (model 13c)
in the transformation process 349
Working with culture to Bring about transformation (model 13d) 353
A case study of conceptual transformation 355
19. Principles for transforming culture with god 360
Principles for the outside advocate 360
Factors influencing the advocacy of change 366
Movements and cultural transformation 370
Principles for Insiders: What to do about the “generation gap” 377
20. An apostolic faith? 382
An apostolic faith? 382
A personal postscript 385
Appendix: An overview of the models and submodels 389
Bibliography of references cited 405
Index of biblical references 427
Index of persons 430
Subject index 433 |
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