Contextualizing the Faith: A Holistic Approach

by A. Scott Moreau

This major statement by a leading missiologist represents a lifetime of wrestling with a topic every cross-cultural leader must how to adapt the universal gospel to particular settings. This comprehensive yet accessible textbook organizes contextualization, which includes "everything the church is and does," into seven dimensions. Filled with examples, case studies, and diagrams and conversant with contemporary arguments and debates, it offers the author's unique take on the challenge of adapting the faith in local cultures.

271 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 6, 2018

About the author

A. Scott Moreau spent fourteen years on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC), ten years in Africa. He directed a regional team of CCC staff in Swaziland and taught general science in a Swazi public high school for two years. After graduate work at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School he taught at Nairobi International School of Theology for over seven years. Dr. Moreau returned to the United States in 1991 to accept a position at Wheaton College, currently teaching in the Missions and Intercultural Studies Department.

Reviews

[Kat Long · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great Contextualization resource from Moreau. He discusses the 7 dimensions of Contextualization (Social, Mythical, Ethical, Artistic/Technological, Ritual, Experience/Supernatural, and Doctrinal) and explains how to use this framework to understand cultures and contextualize the Gospel to them.

[Paul, · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful book for those living in a different culture than they were raised in. That includes everyone over the age of 50-60 who is living in the USA. It's kind of derivative of other works, which is why I give it fewer stars. But the questions are worth thinking through, as are the case studies!