{"product_id":"the-bible-in-cross-cultural-perspective-revised-edition","title":"The Bible in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Revised Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DESCRIPTION]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome Questions are Universal.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere did I come from? What happens when I die? Am I important? Across the world, these questions are answered in a vast range of ways, shaped by our worldview, and our specific cultural context. Cross-cultural workers, seeking to engage people at the point of these questions, can offer a rich dialogue between cultural assumptions and biblical truth, but only if they can reach into the cultural framework underlying a particular context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bible in Cross-Cultural Perspective\u003c\/em\u003e explores this cultural framework, tackling different aspects of the “Biblical worldview’s” interaction with both “Western\/secular” and a “traditional\/animist” worldviews. With topics ranging from the physical and metaphysical perception of the universe, to the significance of names, Loewen unpacks cultural construction in all of it’s layered complexity, allowing us to visualize where the Gospel will interact with people’s beliefs, regardless of their context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJacob Loewen, the author of\u003cem\u003e Culture and Human Values\u003c\/em\u003e, draws on multiple years of experience—across several continents—as a field missionary, anthropologist, linguist, Bible translator, and missions researcher. \u003cem\u003eThe Bible in Cross-Cultural \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerspective\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published in 2000, is Loewen’s culminating work in missionary anthropology and it remains a useful and relevant work today.[\/DESCRIPTION] [CREDIT] by: Jacob Loewen (Author) [\/CREDIT] [PAGES] 350 [\/PAGES] [BINDING] Paperback [\/BINDING] [PUBLISHER] William Carey Library [\/PUBLISHER] [PUBLISHYEAR] 2000, 2020 [\/PUBLISHYEAR][ENDORSEMENT2]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eJacob Loewen is one of the most able and perceptive scholars of our generation when it comes to dealing with the many ways in which Christianity and culture interrelate. He is a missionary with a passion for Christ, an anthropologist, a scholar, a Bible translator\/consultant and a communicator committed to speaking and writing with relevance both to scholars and to non-scholars.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThese qualifications, plus his wide experience in dealing with the Bible in many cultural contexts, enable him to write both with authority and with helpfulness on the Bible in cross-cultural perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ccite\u003eCharles H. Kraft \u003c\/cite\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFuller Theological Seminary, School of World Mission\u003c\/span\u003e [\/ENDORSEMENT2][TOC]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eList of Figures and Tables\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I. The Bible in Cross-cultural Perspective\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Cross-cultural Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Biblical Cultures and The Bible\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II. The Universe: Physical and Metaphysical\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. The Heavens and The Earth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. The Afterlife\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. The Old Testament Spirit World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. The New Testament Spirit World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III. God and the Sacred\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. God and Gods in World Cultures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. The God Concept in The Bible\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Images of God: Male, Female or Both\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. God Speaks, Prophets Prophesy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Spirit Possession and Exorcism: An African View\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Spirit Possession and Exorcism: Comparison of Views\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Impersonal Power: Holiness, Taboo, Magic, Divination\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV. The Significance of Names\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. The Names of People and Places\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15. Some Names for God: A Cultural Tension\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16. Cultural Bias in Translating God’s Names\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart V. Some Implications of Cross-Cultural Perspective\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17. Culture Change: The Case of Biblical Marriage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18. The Shifting God(s) of Western Christianity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19. Looking at Demon Possession from Within Western Categories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20. The Bible in My Life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendixes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndexes\u003c\/p\u003e\n[\/TOC]","brand":"William Carey Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44713257041962,"sku":"gct1787299476369","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0664\/4380\/4714\/files\/the-bible-in-cross-cultural-perspective-revised-edition_1.jpg?v=1787299482","url":"https:\/\/streetstylestore.shop\/products\/the-bible-in-cross-cultural-perspective-revised-edition","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}