Through the eyes of another : intercultural reading of the Bible / [print] edited by Hans de Wit ... [and others. - Elkhart, Indiana : Institute of Mennonite Studies, (c)2004. - xi, 532 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Through the eyes of another : objectives and backgrounds Tableaux vivants Listening with the heart : the reading experience of the Dutch groups Is God's will the same for Groningen and Nicaragua? / Saskia Ossewaarde-van Nie -- Jesus's surprising offer of living cocaine : contextual encounters at the well with Latino inmates in U.S. jails Intercultural Bible reading by Catholic groups of Bogata Through different eyes : Indonesian experiences with an intercultural reading of John 4 Unresolved tensions and the way forward The eyes of the other as porthole and mirror : the communication between Sokhany and Zaandam Artful facilitation and creating a safe interpretive site : an analysis of aspects of a Bible study Continuing that miraculous conversation : interculutral reading of John 4 A Nicaraguan perspective on Jesus and the Samaritan woman Shaping our lives, transforming our communities, reaching out to the world : the power of reading the Word together South African intercultural biblical interpretation : toward a global postcolonial ethic of interpretation Making things in common : the group dynamics dimension of the hermeneutic process Biblical scholars and ordinary readers dialoguing about living water Jesus among the ancestors : continuity and discontinuity Reading John 4 in the interface between ordinary and scholarly interpretation "When people discuss the Word of God with one another, everything becomes real" / Jan Hartman -- Intercultural Bible reading as a practical setting for intercultural communication Living water : wonderful words of life Codes and coding Through the eyes of practical theology and theological education From bipolar to multipolar understanding : hermeneutical consequences of intercultural Bible reading Intercultural hermeneutics : conversations across cultural and contextual divides Intercultural Bible reading and hermeneutics Ecumenical relevance of intercultural Bible reading Epilogue Hans de Wit -- Hans de Wit and Marleen Kool -- Arie Moolenaar -- Bob Ekblad -- Edgar Antonio Lopez -- Jilles de Klerk -- Eric Anum -- Danie van Zyl -- Gerald West -- Marleen Kool -- Azucena Lopez Namoyure -- Evelyn Miranda-Feliciano -- Mark Rathbone -- Alma Lanser-van der Velde -- Hans Snoek -- Louis Jonker -- Nestor Miguez -- Marleen Kool -- Janet W. Dyk -- Hans de Wit -- Daniel Schipani and Mary Schertz -- Rainer Kessler -- John Riches -- Hans de Wit -- Theo Witvliet -- Hans de Wit.



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Samaritan woman (Biblical figure)


Bible.--N.T.--John IV--Reader-response criticism.


Multiculturalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

BS2615 BS2615.W819.T476 2004