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    <![CDATA[Anthropological Insights for Missionaries]]>
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    <![CDATA[Expert anthropologist shows missionaries how to better understand the people they serve and their historical and cultural settings.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Understanding Folk Religion: A Christian Response to Popular Beliefs and Practices]]>
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    <![CDATA[Provides a model for examining the beliefs of folk religions around the world and suggests biblical principles missionaries can use to deal with them.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change]]>
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    <![CDATA[In the past, changes in behavior and in belief have been leading indicators for missionaries that Christian conversion had occurred. But these alone--or even together--are insufficient for a gospel understanding of conversion. For effective biblical mission, Paul G. Hiebert argues, we must add a third element: a change in worldview. Here he offers a comprehensive study of worldview--its philosophy, its history, its characteristics, and the means for understanding it. He then provides a detailed analysis of several worldviews that missionaries must engage today, addressing the impact of each on Christianity and mission. A biblical worldview is outlined for comparison. Finally, Hiebert argues for gospel ministry that seeks to transform people's worldviews and offers suggestions for how to do so.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Cultural Anthropology,]]>
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    <![CDATA[This introduction to the field of cultural anthropology from a Christian perspective exposes students to the excitement and significance of human history and culture.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1990</published>
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    <![CDATA[Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts: Affirming Truth in a Modern/Postmodern World]]>
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    <![CDATA[What must a new convert know or believe? How do they know? How can Christian teaching be translated and communicated interculturally without distorting the message? How should mission be done in an anticolonial, postmodern era charactersized by religious relativism and accusations of Christian imperialism?  Hiebert focuses on three epistemological foundations or specific theories of knowledge that underlay these questions - positivism, instrumentalism/idealism and critical realism. He embraces critical realism because it allows for a real world that exists independently from human perceptions and opinions, restores emotions and moral judgements as essential parts of knowing, and creates conditions for knowing persons intimately and as fully human.  Paul G. Hiebert is Professor of Anthropology and Mission, chair of the Department of Mission and Evangelism, and Associate Dean of Academic Doctorates at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues]]>
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    <![CDATA[Explores anthropology's contributions to the better cross-cultural understanding of epistemology, globalism, urbanization, church planting, spiritual warfare, and more.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Through the River: Understanding Your Assumptions about Truth]]>
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    <![CDATA[Accommodation or understanding, watering down truth or understanding truth?      Through the River is a challenging and fascinating book that takes the reader on a poignant journey through River Town, providing an eyeopening view on how people can live in close proximity while having radically contrasting worldviews. River Towns three communities live and act so differently because each group is using a distinct set of assumptions about truth (worldview).     This journey exposes the eternal consequences of how our worldview influences whether we tell others what we know, insist that others accept what we know or be resigned to keep what we know to ourselves. Today the confusion about truth is great but the stakes are even greater. Our ability to understand various concepts of truth is crucial to determining our success in all our relationships and in our kingdom work. Through the River explores the building blocks necessary to construct bridges that can span cultural gaps so we can share the passion of Christ with a hurting   world.    CONTENTS  Chapter 1 Three Communities along the River  Chapter 2 The River Town Story How History Affects Truth Lenses  Chapter 3 Positivism Settling on the Rocky Shore  Chapter 4 Instrumentalism Into the River  Chapter 5 Critical Realism   Chapter 6 Experiencing Truth in Love  Chapter 7 Holding Truth Lenses Up to the Bible  Chapter 8 The Great Disturbance  Chapter 9 Truth Lenses and Relationships  Chapter 10 Interacting with Others on the Journey  Chapter 11 The World through Your Truth Lens  Chapter 12 Journeys through the River]]>
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    <![CDATA[Incarnational Ministry: Planting Churches in Band, Tribal, Peasant, and Urban Societies]]>
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    <![CDATA[A study of four types of societies with characteristics that affect receptivity to evangelism and church planting.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Gospel in Human Contexts, The: Anthropological Explorations for Contemporary Missions]]>
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    <![CDATA[While the gospel is timeless truth, it enters into ever-changing and widely varied human contexts. In order to meaningfully communicate the gospel to particular humans, those involved in cross-cultural ministry need to understand people and the particular influences--social, cultural, psychological, and ecological--that shape them. Further, we must understand ourselves and the influences that have shaped us, since our own contexts influence how we understand and transmit the gospel message. Therefore, we must master not only the skill of biblical interpretation but also the skill of human interpretation. That task is the topic of this book, the summation of a lifetime of experience and thinking by a world-renowned missiologist and anthropologist, the late Paul Hiebert.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change]]>
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    <![CDATA[In the past, changes in behavior and in belief have been leading indicators for missionaries that Christian conversion had occurred. But these alone--or even together--are insufficient for a gospel understanding of conversion. For effective biblical mission, Paul G. Hiebert argues, we must add a third element: a change in worldview. Here he offers a comprehensive study of worldview--its philosophy, its history, its characteristics, and the means for understanding it. He then provides a detailed analysis of several worldviews that missionaries must engage today, addressing the impact of each on Christianity and mission. A biblical worldview is outlined for comparison. Finally, Hiebert argues for gospel ministry that seeks to transform people's worldviews and offers suggestions for how to do so.]]>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Case Studies in Missions]]>
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    <id>200176</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Frances F. Hiebert]]></name>
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        <name><![CDATA[Paul G. Hiebert]]></name>
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