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Some Thoughts on Culture, Communication, and Missions. Part 3

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<Continuation from Part 2> Missionary Interaction with a Culture Missionary Culture         Respondent Culture Figure V. Gospel Communication Between Cultures Figure V shows the most generic interaction where a missionary from one culture seeks to give a contextualized message to a second culture. If one looks at the Three Culture Model, this …

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Translation and Diffusion

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Lamin Sanneh uses Translation and Diffusion as terms to describe two types of mission work. Diffusion is the traditional (although not universal) form of Islamic mission. The assumption is that the culture of land of its origin (Arabia) is the ideal form for its missional expression. Translation is the traditional (but by no means universal) …

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