The purpose of this research is to discover if a discussion of Mongolian proverbs with insiders and outsiders present can be used to better understand Mongolian culture. The resulting goal is to develop a contextually appropriate approach for evangelism in Erdenet, Mongolia. Thi…
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The first missionaries arrived in southern Sudan around the middle of the nineteenth century, bringing with them a Western model of church. That same model of church is evident all across southern Sudan today. While contextualization has occurred in parts, there is no fully cont…
This dissertation examines Insider Movements, a missiological strategy where adherents of a high-religious system retain their socio-religious birth identity as a means of preventing extraction, thereby aiding the evangelistic and church planting task by keeping the social and f…
The question of insider movements remains an area of controversial debate among mission agencies, missiologists, and cross-cultural workers who serve among Muslims. A central issue is whether or not believers from Muslim backgrounds (BMBs) can and should retain Muslim religious …
Missiologists have realized that the Church must contextualize the gospel to make its message relevant to the receptors. Contextualization of Christian faith enriches, encourages, and dynamically empowers any people group to respond meaningfully to the Scriptures. This study att…
The felt needs of people in every community reflect their worldview, that is, their basic “assumptions, values, and commitments” (Kraft 1989:20). Worldview determines a people's priorities, allegiance, and risks worth dying for. The research issue in this dissertation is the use…
The question to be considered in this thesis is: should the Canaanite elements in the Psalter be classified as evidence of syncretism or, rather, as evidence of another process called contextualization? Contextualization is a process of communicating from one context to another …
Contextualization has been a major theological pursuit in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. This concern is born out of the necessity to integrate Christianity into African life and culture. Although the concept has taken root in theology, liturgy, and missiology in N…
Historically, critics linked Bible translation directly to literacy and evangelism, and indirectly to colonial agendas. Those involved in Bible translation in recent centuries have often restricted their purview both in terms of communication media and theological imagination. T…
This study explores the attractions that make for a successful ministry among Jews, and the hindrances that have impeded, and continue to impede, that mission. It begins with an overview of the theological, historical and missiological frameworks of this ministry, and then intro…
This dissertation was conducted for the purpose of discovering more effective means for Southern Baptist International Mission Board (IMB) church planting missionaries to accomplish the task of indigenous church planting, specifically, among Chinese Malaysians. For over fifteen …
The purpose of this doctoral project is to justify and promote the implementation of a dynamic contextualization in evangelical churches, especially theologically conservative Baptist churches. To support this purpose, this project explores a contextualization that is based on s…
This descriptive ethnographic study examines how male evangelical Mongolian church leaders in Mongolia experience Christianity. This study seeks to understand the contemporary perspective, specifically through their conversion, discipleship, navigation of Mongolian culture and t…
In the past two decades, a significant number of revisionist literature has been published by queer Asian theologians challenging orthodox teachings on homosexuality and gender identity. The issue that the Asian American church faces today is pressure from society and culture to…
In this dissertation I research the cultural dynamics of Indonesian believers withintheir Christian and Muslim socio-religious contexts to develop a missional ecclesiologythat is scripturally sound, culturally inclusive, and deliberately outreaching. This becomesa framework for …
In this dissertation, I argue that the degree to which Scripture engagement is contextualized to a Muslim social environment directly impacts the formation of movements to Christ and their nascent ecclesiological boundaries relating to the broader Church. The issue prompting thi…
This dissertation explores Taiwanese attitudes and lived reality regarding religiosity. The purpose is to develop a contextual approach to gospel transmission in Taiwan. This dissertation incorporates qualitative research in the form of twenty-five in-depth, semi-structured inte…
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest were brought to life on the early modern stage within two decades of each other. Over the course of those twenty years, England saw a number of political and social changes. The transition from the reign …
History education provides a valuable asset in the education of youth from the integration of disciplines to the opportunity to stimulate higher order thinking in high school students. However, little research before the 1990’s had been done to improve the century old pedagogy o…