I have never really used the term "Inculturation" before. I was editing a doctoral paper of a friend of mine and saw he was using that term and was getting ready to correct him. He was, however, using the term correctly and I wasn't. Therefore, I am going to put this post here for my …
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I have two daughters who are into anime. One of them is especially interested in the process of bringing animated products from Japan to the US. She can talk at length about voice actors, translation companies, and more. While talking to her (mostly about Pokemon on this occasion) she began talking about the process of …
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Successful missionaries, mission programs, and mission movements in Christian history seem to have four characteristics. They don't always have all three, there is a priority to them. Now some that have been numerically successful (such as the invasion and subsequent colonization and "Christianization" of South America) fail to meet the criteria of sound Christian missions, …