Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally, Second Edition

David J. Hesselgrave served as a missionary in Japan for twelve years. He is now professor of mission and director of the School of World Mission and Evangelism at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

• CONTENTSFiguresForeword to First EditionForeword to Revised EditionPrefacePart I Communication and Mission1. Communication, the Missionary Problem Par Excellence2. Man, The Communicating Creature3. The Legacy of Rhetoric to Christian Communication4. Perspectives From the Science of Communication5. The Problem of Meaning6. Why Do Missionaries Communicate?Part II Communication and Culture7. The Role of Culture in Communication8. Christ and His Communicators Confront Culture9. Contextualization – Its Theological Roots10. Cross-Cultural Communication – Classic Categories and Paradigms11. Cross-Cultural Communciation – Contemporary Categories and Paradigms12. Respondents of Other CulturesPart III Worldviews – Ways of Perceiving the World13. Worldviews and Cross Cultural Communication14. Communicating Christ Into the Naturalist Worldview15. Communicating Christ Into the Tribal Worldview16. Communicating Christ Into the Hindu-Buddhistic Worldview17. Communicating Christ Into a Chinese Worldview18. Communicating Christ Into Other Monotheistic Worldviews19. Communicating Christ Into the Worldviews of Syncretism and MultireligionPart IV Cognitive processes – Ways of Thinking20. The Importance of How We Know What We Know21. Cultural Differences and the Cognitive Process22. Conceptual Thinking and the Western Missionary23. Communicating Christ in Cultural Areas Where Intuitional Thinking Predominates24. Communicating Christ in Cultural Areas Where Concrete Relational Thinking PredominatesPart V Linguistic Forms – Ways of Expressing Ideas25. The Importance of Language26. Why Bother to Learn the Language?27. Learning About Language Learning28. What Can We Learn From Languages?Part VI Behavioral Patterns – Ways of Acting29. From Plato and Aristotle to Edward T. Hall30. The Missionary and Behavioral Norms31. Seven Aspects of the “Behavioral Dimension”32. Where the Action IsPart VII Social Structures – Ways of Interacting33. Communicating and Social Orientations34. Status and Role35. Kinship: Kindred and Lineage36. Nonkinship Groupings37. Urban and Rural Societies38. Free and Totalitarian SocietiesPart VIII Media Influence – Ways of Channeling the Message39. Media Have Their Own “Messages”40. Using Simple Media41. Using Syndetic MediaPart IX Motivational Resources – Ways of Deciding42. From Persuasion to Elenctics 43. Psychology, Ethnopsychology, and Mission44. Motivation, Decision Making, and Conversion45. Receptivity and Missionary ResponseBibliographyIndex of PersonsIndex of SubjectsIndex of Scripture References