Worldview for Christian witness

Worldview for Christian witness / Charles H. Kraft.

Charles Kraft invites readers to understand reality as God sees it by learning to take seriously the insights of other societies. The diversity of cultures can seem obvious, but to really understand the significance of those surface level differences, one needs to understand the deep level assumptio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kraft, Charles H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pasadena, CA : William Carey Library, ©2008.
Subjects:
Missions.
Anthropology of religion.
Christianity and culture.
anthropology of religion.
Anthropology of religion
Christianity and culture
Missions
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Table of Contents:
  • The perspective
  • Why should Christians study worldview?
  • People, worldview & change
  • Critical realism
  • Current approaches of non-anthropologists
  • Other approaches: anthropological
  • Worldview, religion & subsystems
  • Characteristics of worldviews
  • Functions of worldview
  • Universals: categorization, person/group
  • Worldview universals: relationship, causality
  • Universals: time/event, space/material world
  • Worldview orientations & types
  • Worldview configurations
  • Discovering worldview
  • What are we taking to the world?
  • How are worldviews changed?
  • Worldview change
  • Obstacles & opportunities in worldview change: person/group
  • Obstacles & opportunities in worldview change II: categorization, causality, time, space, relationship
  • Patterns of worldview change
  • Strategies for constructive change
  • Reaching peoples of three types
  • Wrapping things up.

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