Modernity: Scaffolding or Stumbling Block for a Chinese Gospel
Modernity adds complexity to one's Chinese urban Asian diet. Mission thinking has not made the transition from rural rice fields to metropolitan McDonald's. Missionaries who fail to analyze modernity's impact ignore the central cultural dynamic affecting ministry.Three Chinese urban A...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1989
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Missiology
Year: 1989, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 321-333 |
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| Summary: | Modernity adds complexity to one's Chinese urban Asian diet. Mission thinking has not made the transition from rural rice fields to metropolitan McDonald's. Missionaries who fail to analyze modernity's impact ignore the central cultural dynamic affecting ministry.Three Chinese urban Asian settings provide illustrative material to answer four modernity-generated questions:How has traditional missionary training failed to prepare cross-cultural workers for Chinese urban Asia?How have missionaries viewed modernity and why?How has modernity affected gospel receptivity?How can missionaries prepare for life in the urban jungle?An ambiguity-free job description is an Icarus not even the Chinese can dream. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182968901700307 |