Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents

“Culture’s influence upon Christianity is easier to discern in retrospect than in prospect. If history is our guide, one thing is sure: This age will be as syncretistic as any other…How is the gospel being contextualized in the contemporary world? To what degree are these new contextualizations syncretistic? This book attempts to answer these questions by defining and analyzing contextualization and syncretism.”–Gailyn Van Rheenen

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Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents

“Culture’s influence upon Christianity is easier to discern in retrospect than in prospect. If history is our guide, one thing is sure: This age will be as syncretistic as any other…How is the gospel being contextualized in the contemporary world? To what degree are these new contextualizations syncretistic? This book attempts to answer these questions by defining and analyzing contextualization and syncretism.”–Gailyn Van Rheenen

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Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents

Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents

by Gailyn Van Rheenen (Editor)
Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents

Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents

by Gailyn Van Rheenen (Editor)

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“Culture’s influence upon Christianity is easier to discern in retrospect than in prospect. If history is our guide, one thing is sure: This age will be as syncretistic as any other…How is the gospel being contextualized in the contemporary world? To what degree are these new contextualizations syncretistic? This book attempts to answer these questions by defining and analyzing contextualization and syncretism.”–Gailyn Van Rheenen


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780878083879
Publisher: Carey, William Library Publishers
Publication date: 09/15/2006
Series: Evangelical Missiological Society Ser. , #13
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 354
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Gailyn Van Rheenen (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is director of the church planting ministry Mission Alive (www.missionalive.org), adjunct professor of missions at Abilene Christian University, and former missionary to East Africa. His website is www.missiology.org.

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