Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally, Second Edition

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This revised edition of Dr. David Hesselgrave's great work Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally updates the original edition and interacts with the most recent literature on this increasingly important topic. The original edition went through fifteen printings and, very deservedly, has come to be one of the most widely used textbooks on Christian cross-cultural communications. The revisions in this new edition are extensive and carry on the high level of discussion maintained throughout the original edition, taking into account, for example, the current discussion on the relationship between form and function and the enormous body of literature that has sprung up recently on contextualization. To enhance the volume's usefulness for students, Dr. Hesselgrave has added an extensive bibliography of twenty-five pages on various aspects of cross-cultural communications. This revision of Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally is superb. It raises a great book into a unique category, undoubtedly the finest book on this topic available today. COMMUNICATING CHRIST Communication, The Missionaiy Problem Par Excellence Man, The Communicating Creature The Legacy of Rhetoric to Christian Communication RHETORIC AND HOMILETICS RHETORIC AND COMMUNICATION THEORY IN ITS LARGER DIMENSIONS Perspectives From the Science of Communication A BASIC MODEL OF THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY SOURCES RESPONDENTS AND THEIR RESPONSES THE ENCODING AND DECODING PROCESSES VERBAL AND NONVERBAL CODES COMMUNICATION CHANNELS AND MEDIA FEEDBACK NOISE COMMUNICATION AND CONTEXT The Problem of Meaning A THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF SOME DISCUSSIONS ON MEANING WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SYMBOLS "MEAN"? WHERE IS MEANING TO BE FOUND? THE MEANING OF RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS HOW CAN WE DETERMINE WHAT VERBAL SYMBOLS MEAN? Why Do Missionaries Communicate? THE NEW TESTAMENT CASE FOR PERSUASION INSIGHTS FROM COMMUNICATION THEORY CONCLUSION TO PART I The Role of Culture In Communication THE CULTURAL BARRIER TO MISSIONARY COMMUNICATION "MULTIPLE RHETORICS" AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION UNDERSTANDING CULTURE UNDERSTANDING CULTURES A THREE-CULTURE MODEL OF MISSIONARY COMMUNICATION Christ and His Communicators Confront Culture THE TENSION BETWEEN CHRIST AND CULTURE CULTURE—THE HIGH VIEW CULTURAL RELATIVISM ANALYZING THE RESPONDENT CULTURE TRANSFORMING CULTURE Contextualization— Its Theological Roots WHAT WORD SHALL WE CHOOSE? THE GENESIS OF A NEW WORD SO WHAT DOES “CONTEXTUALIZATION” MEAN? CONTEXTUALIZATION—A BRIEF THEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS THE SPEAKER OR SOURCE OF THE MISSIONARY MESSAGE THE CONTENT OF THE MISSIONARY MESSAGE THE STYLE OF THE MISSIONARY MESSAGE THE "SEVEN DIMENSIONS" OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION CULTURAL DISTANCE Respondents of Other Cultures CROSS-CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION RESPONDENT ACTIVITIES RESPONDENT RESPONSE CONCLUSION TO PART II Worldviews and Cross-Cultural Communication CULTURE AND WORLDVIEW DEFINING “WORLDVIEW7' CATEGORIZING WORLDVIEWS CHARACTERIZING WORLDVIEWS BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW COMMUNICATING CHRIST IN THE CONTEXTS OF NON-CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEWS Communicating Christ Into The Naturalist Worldview CHARACTERIZING THE NATURALIST WORLDVIEW COMMUNICATING INTO A NATURALIST WORLDVIEW Communicating Christ Into The Tribal Worldview DEFINING THE TRIBAL WORLDVIEW CHARACTERIZING THE WORLDVIEW OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA COMMUNICATING CHRIST TO PEOPLE WITH A TRIBAL WORLDVIEW Communicating Christ Into The Hindu-Buddhistic Worldview THE IDEAS AND DEVELOPMENT OF HINDUISM THE IDEAS AND DEVELOPMENT OF BUDDHISM COMMUNICATING CHRIST TO HINDUS AND BUDDHISTS Communicating Christ Into A Chinese Worldview THE WORLDVIEW OF ANCIENT CHINA THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF LAO-TZU AND CONFUCIUS THE INDIAN AND CHINESE WORLDVIEWS COMPARED THE CHINESE WORLDVIEW AND THE COMMUNICATION OF CHRIST Communicating Christ Into Monotheistic Worldviews THE CHALLENGES OF JUDAISM AND ISLAM COMMUNICATING CHRIST TO MUSLIMS AND JEWS Communicating Christ Into The Worldviews of Syncretism and Multireligion SYNCRETISM MULTIRELIGION CONCLUSION TO PART III The Importance of How We Know What We Know "THINKING ABOUT THINKING" COGNITIVE PROCESS COGNITIVE MAPS THE “MIND OF A PEOPLE" Cultural Differences and the Cognitive Process THE BISYSTEMIC APPROACHES OF S. L. GULICK AND F. C. S. NORTHROP THE TRISYSTEMIC APPROACH OF F. H. SMITH Conceptual Thinking and The Western Missionary MYSTICAL THOUGHT UNDERSTANDING INTUITIONAL THINKING COMMUNICATING CHRIST TO INTUITIONALISTS TRIBAL PEOPLES AS CONCRETE RELATIONAL THINKERS CHINESE PEOPLE AS CONCRETE RELATIONAL THINKERS UNDERSTANDING CONCRETE RELATIONAL THINKING SUGGESTIONS FOR COMMUNICATING CHRIST TO CONCRETE RELATIONALISTS CONCLUSION TO PART IV The Importance of Language Why Bother to Learn The Language? LANGUAGE AS A VEHICLE FOR GOSPEL COMMUNICATION ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA FOR MISSIONARY COMMUNICATION THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF THE RECEPTOR CULTURE Learning About Language Learning UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE LEARNING LEARNING A LANGUAGE BY "CULTURAL SUBMERSION” What Gan We Learn From Language? THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS LINGUISTIC MIRRORS OF CULTURE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND RECEPTIVITY CONCLUSION TO PART V From Plato and Aristotle to Edward T. Hall THE TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR THE APPROACH OF EDWARD T. HALL TYPES OF "SILENT LANGUAGE" BEHAVIOR The Missionary and Behavioral Norms OBEDIENCE TO THE WILL OF GOD ACCOMMODATION TO CULTURAL NORMS WHEN IN ROME AND IN DOUBT Seven Aspects of The “Behavioral Dimension” "BODY LANGUAGE" "TOUCHING BEHAVIOR" SPACE SPEAKS TIME TALKS PARALANGUAGE ARTIFACTS AND ENVIRONMENT Where The Action Is CONCLUSION TO PART VI Communication and Societal Orientations Status and Role THE STATUS AND ROLE OF THE MISSIONARY COMMUNICATOR WHO ARE MY RESPONDENTS IN RELATION TO OTHER MEMBERS OF THEIR SOCIETY? Kinship: Kindred and Lineage Nonkinship Groupings GLASS IN THE PHILIPPINES NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS IN JAPAN Urban and Rural Societies CITY SOCIETIES PEASANT AND TRIBAL SOCIETIES Free and Totalitarian Societies CONCLUSION TO PART VII Media Have Their Own “Messages” "MEDIA” AND "MESSAGE” ACCORDING TO MCLUHAN TYPES OF “MEDIA" AND THEIR “MESSAGES" LEARNING FROM MCLUHAN Using Simple Media THE POTENTIAL OF AURAL MEDIA TALK AND CHALK DRAMA, RITUAL, MUSIC, AND DANCE Using Syndetic Media SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION THE PRINT MEDIA THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA PLATFORM MEDIA OTHER MEDIA MIXING AND MATCHING MEDIA THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION CONCLUSION TO PART VIII From Persuasion to Elenctics HAVE WE THE RIGHT? HAVE WE THE RESOURCES? Psychology, Ethnopsychology, and Mission MOTIVATION AND CULTURAL PATTERNS POINTS OF CONTACT MISSIONARY APPEALS Motivation, Decision Making, and Conversion DECISION AND NONDECISION ORIENTATIONS GROUP CONVERSION AND CONSENSUS DECISION MAKING CONVERSION AND DECISION MAKING AS POINT AND PROCESS PROFIT EQUALS REWARD MINUS GOST THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MOTIVATION FOR CONVERSION AND CHRISTIAN ATTAINMENT Receptivity and Missionary Response TIMING SEQUENCE RELEVANCE CONCLUSION TO PART IX