TY  - BOOK
AU  - Terry,George A
TI  - The significance of the biblical-historical framework for translating and retransmitting the gospel: An analysis of the shape of Christianity among East Malaysian tribals 
AV  - BS2401 T47 2016 .S546 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Fort Worth, Texas
PB  - [Unknown]
N1  - Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Borneo Evangelical Mission Among the Lun Bawan of Sarawak; Chapter 3 The Early Methodist Mission Among the Iban in the Third Division of Sarawak; Chapter 4 Missiological Dynamics for the Transformation of the Worldview in Conversion; Chapter 5 Transforming Animistic Preunderstandings That Inform a Theology of Salvation Among the Iban of Sarawak; Chapter 6 Colossians as a Contextual-Theological Paradigm for Addressing the Problem of Syncretism Among Tribal Peoples; Includes bibliography references (pages 230-251); Prologue --; Statement of the Problem --; The Metanarrative of Scripture as a Precondition for Communicating the Gospel --; The Philosophical and Scientific Argument for Metanarrative as a Precondition for Interpretation --; Narrative Framework and the Interpretation of Scripture --; The Nature of Scripture as Story --; The Necessity of Critical Contextualization for Communicating the Gospel --; Critical Concerns for Contextualizing the Gospel in Animistic Contexts --; Conclusion; The Early Christian History of Sarawak --; Two Divergent Evangelical Christian Streams in Sarawak --; The Indigenous Approach of the Borneo Evangelical Mission --; The Pilgrimizing Principle: Making the Gospel Feel at Home among the Lun Bawang Peoples --; The Indigenizing Principle: Establishing the Biblical Framework for Explicating the Gospel; A Historical Survey of the Early Methodist Work among the Iban --; Distancing the Gospel through Disaffirming the Culture --; Relativising the Gosepl through Affirming Iban Beliefs and Practices --; Summary; Introduction --; The Cultural Situatedness of the Messenger --; Two Antipathies between the Western and the Non-Western Worldview --; The Universe as Integrated or Disjointed --; Truth as Essentially Proposition or Existential --; The Theological Consequences --; The Alienation of the Gospel to Non-Western Cultures --; The Alienation of the Gospel to the Metanarrative of Scripture --; The Cultural Situatedness of the Receptor --; The Helpful-Detrimental Dichotomy of the Local Context in Theologizing --; Illustration: The Pentecostal Charismatic Influence among Asian Tribals --; The Missiological Positive: A Contextual Prototype --; The Missiological Negative: Compromising the Metanarrative of Scripture --; Conclusion; Worldview and Contextualization --; Convesion as Worldview Transformation --; Culture and Conversion --; Animistic Preunderstnadings that Inform a Contextual Theology of Salvation --; Anthropocentric and Pragmatic --; Iban Anthropocentrism --; Iban Materialism --; Iban Existentialism --; Polytheistic, Spiritualistic and Ritualistic --; Divine Immanence in Animism --; Placing the Divine and Iban Shamanism --; The Spirit World in Iban Oral Tradition --; Holistic and Relational --; Iban Cosmolongy-an Integrated Universe --; Iban Anthropology --; Iban Harmartiology --; Transforming Animistic Preunderstandings with a Biblical-Contextual Theology of Salvation --; Storying --; Grouping --; Theology of Suffering --; Theology of Worship and Submission --; A Theology of the Invisible --; Significant Redemptive Themes in Iban Culture --; Conclusion; Introduction --; Colossians as a Paradigm for Addressing Syncretism --; Assessing the Context: The Philosophical-Theological Situation in the Church at Colossae --; The Pilgrimizig Principle: Unmasking the Worldview Differences between the Colossian Philosophy and the Biblical-Historical Metanarrative --; Reestablishing the Biblical-Historical Framework: The Gospel of a Sufficient Salvation in Jesus Christ (1:3-2:5) --; Opposing the Counterfeit Worldview Framework: The Soteriological Insufficiency of the Colossian Philosophy (2:6-23) --; The Indigenizing Principle: Contextualizing the Normative Message in the Colossian Language and Thought Forms --; Affirming the Colossian Culture through the Use of a Shared Terminology --; Affirming the Colossian Culture through a Contextualized Theology --; Application: Communicating the Universal Gospel in the Contextual Thought Forms of the Iban People --; Extant Forms of Syncretism among the Methodist Iban --; Unmasking the Worldview Differences-Cultural Aspects that are Incompatible with a Christian Worldview --; Antu, Mimpi, and Burong-Spiritual Omens in Iban Culture --; Sebayan-Life After Death in Iban Culture --; Manang (Shaman) --; Rituals and Piring (Sacrifice) --; Grave Decorum --; Contextualizing the Normative Message in an Iban Context --; Gawai/Piring-Thanksgiving --; Funeral Service and Spirits of the Deceased --; Conclusion; 2
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