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