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Muslim evangelism : contemporary approaches to contextualization / Phil Parshall. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Waynesboro, Georgia. : Gabriel Publishing, (c)2003.Edition: Revisedition. editionDescription: 307 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781884543791
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV2625.P266.M875 2003
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Contents:
An overview of contextualization -- Syncretism -- Contextualization controversies -- Form and meaning -- The Muslim worldview --
The cross-cultural communicator -- Theological bridges to salvation -- The Muslim background believer church -- Problematic Christian practices -- Muslim religious rituals -- Muslim social practices --
The challenge of Bimbar -- Reaction to contextualization -- Spiritual considerations.
Subject: Too long the church has been programmed to accept the inevitabilities of meager results in the efforts toward Muslim evangelization. The reasons for this failure in mission must now be probed and resolved as the world today is coming alive to the presence of the Muslim religious community. The author asks the missions world to forsake former presuppositions and to become conscious of God speaking in a new and fresh manner—not in regard to His changeless Word—but in areas of extra-biblical methodology.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BV2625.P377.M875 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001380209

Originally published as: New paths in Muslim evangelism (Grand Rapids : Baker, 1980).

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PART 1: PRINCIPLES OF CONTEXTUALIZATION -- An overview of contextualization -- Syncretism -- Contextualization controversies -- Form and meaning -- The Muslim worldview --

PART 2: APPLICATION OF CONTEXTUALIZATION -- The cross-cultural communicator -- Theological bridges to salvation -- The Muslim background believer church -- Problematic Christian practices -- Muslim religious rituals -- Muslim social practices --

PART 3: POTENTIAL FOR CONTEXTUALIZATION -- The challenge of Bimbar -- Reaction to contextualization -- Spiritual considerations.

Too long the church has been programmed to accept the inevitabilities of meager results in the efforts toward Muslim evangelization. The reasons for this failure in mission must now be probed and resolved as the world today is coming alive to the presence of the Muslim religious community. The author asks the missions world to forsake former presuppositions and to become conscious of God speaking in a new and fresh manner—not in regard to His changeless Word—but in areas of extra-biblical methodology.

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