Culture, Communication, and Christianity

Culture, Communication, and Christianity PDF

Author: Charles H. Kraft

Publisher: William Carey Library

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780878087846

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Charles Kraft is a well-known author, educator, linguist, anthropologist, and missiologist. This book consists of his selected writings compiled over more than three decades. Subjects including anthropology, communication, worldview, ethnolinguistics, hermeneutics, and contextualization are dealt with as they relate to Christianity and Kraft's unique perspective. Kraft's personal story and an exhaustive bibliography of his personal writings (from 1961-2000) are included. This book is of extraodrinary value to those who desire to study Christianity, culture and communication, and the interplay between all three.

Authentic Communication

Authentic Communication PDF

Author: Tim Muehlhoff

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2010-02-25

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0830879463

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What could be more natural, more human, than communication? But we all learn quickly enough that good communication is not always natural. There is much to learn from Scripture and from the academic study of human communication. In this book Tim Muehlhoff and Todd Lewis are able guides, aiding us in understanding the broad field of human communication in Christian perspective.

Christianity Confronts Culture

Christianity Confronts Culture PDF

Author: Marvin Keene Mayers

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780310289012

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In this revised edition you will find discussions and definitions of the impact of Christian gospel, its ethics, and its lifestyle. Numerous case studies are included.

Effective Intercultural Communication (Encountering Mission)

Effective Intercultural Communication (Encountering Mission) PDF

Author: A. Scott Moreau

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1441245936

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With the development of instantaneous global communication, it is vital to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. This addition to the acclaimed Encountering Mission series is designed to offer contemporary intercultural communication insights to mission students and practitioners. Authored by leading missionary scholars with significant intercultural experience, the book explores the cultural values that show up in intercultural communication and examines how we can communicate effectively in a new cultural setting. Features such as case studies, tables, figures, and sidebars are included, making the book useful for classrooms.

Anthropology for Christian Witness

Anthropology for Christian Witness PDF

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

Communicating Christ Cross-culturally

Communicating Christ Cross-culturally PDF

Author: David J. Hesselgrave

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9780310368113

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As an unparalleled introduction to missionary communication, this thoroughly indexed book examines world views, cognitive processes, linguistic forms, behavioral patterns, social structures, communication media, and motivational sources.

Communication Theory for Christian Witness

Communication Theory for Christian Witness PDF

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.

Crossing Cultures with Jesus

Crossing Cultures with Jesus PDF

Author: Katie J. Rawson

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2015-11-04

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0830898921

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You can be a missionary by crossing an ocean or by crossing the street. Filled with compelling stories, practical resources and relational tools, this guide from veteran crosscultural minister Katie Rawson shows how we can witness the way Jesus did, entering into people's worlds and drawing them into God-centered community.

Christianity in Culture

Christianity in Culture PDF

Author: Charles H. Kraft

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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"This new edition includes reflections on themes that have emerged since the book's initial publication in 1979. It takes on squarely the task of helping both outsiders and insiders understand the hidden language of culture and learning how culture affects a people's appropriation of the person and message of Jesus Christ."--BOOK JACKET.

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