I have been working on a couple of articles. One of them I decided to remove a large section. I will include it here. Most of it comes from parts of my books on on Interreligious Dialoge and Theology of Mission (using some of the work of David Hesselgrave, Stephen Bevans, and Paul Hiebert). Theology …
Tag: contextualization of theology
Six Robust Foundations for Contextualized Christian Theology?
One of the big trends in recent years in Christian missions has been to think about contextualization for cultures that place a higher value shame than on guilt. As work in contextualization for honor/shame cultures, three things happened. First, there was a growth in the realization that the Bible not only focuses considerably on honor …
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Internationalization and Localization of Theology, Part 4
The final step of localizing a video game for a new market is Quality Control. The steps of Internationalization and Localization are meant to make a game that feels natural in a new market. I noted in the last post, the goal is not to make the game feel local, but rather to make the …
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Internationalization and Localization of Theology— Part 2
A critical step for converting video games to new culture/market is Internationalization. On initial consideration, it seems as if this is unnecessary. Why would one need to “internationalize” so as to 'localize.” However, this step is needed unliess one wants to make the localization process incredibly distressing. I must note that I am not a …
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Internationalization and Localization of Theology. Part 1
I am not a video game person. I am pretty much limited to "Match 3" games. I was addicted to Bards Tale back in the 1980s. However, I have been talking to my daughter who is very interested in video games. She is interested in playing them, but also has a considerable interest in their …
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The More Difficult Task
A relevant question that could come up here is which is more difficult? Is it harder to to make theology relevant to a community, or faithful to God's Word. At first glance, it may seem that it really depends on the person. For example, an untrained person who is fully enculturated (born into) culture “B” …
Theological Contextualization Presentation Update
Made a fair number of changes to my presentation, so it is updated on Slideshare, and embedded here: