The Pedagogy of Evangelism: Moving from a Didactic to a Conversational Model of Evangelism
This paper argues that while evangelicalism has sought to maintain the importance of communicating a normative understanding of faith, it has done so primarily through a didactic understanding of evangelism. This has made it difficult to integrate informal and non-verbal expressions into an account...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Mission studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 95-116 |
| Further subjects: | B
didactic
B Evangelism B the four voices of theology B Conversation B Evangelicalism B Theological Action Research |
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| Summary: | This paper argues that while evangelicalism has sought to maintain the importance of communicating a normative understanding of faith, it has done so primarily through a didactic understanding of evangelism. This has made it difficult to integrate informal and non-verbal expressions into an account of evangelism and, I argue, has contributed to evangelicalism’s problems of understanding the relationship between evangelism and social action. By turning to lived experience, and the ‘theology in four voices’ framework from theological action research, I suggest a conversational model of evangelism which enables a move away from a didactic model without losing a commitment to communicating a normative understanding of Christian faith. This model relates more clearly to the lived experience of participants in my research and enables a more integrated understanding of evangelism, which places greater value on the ordinary and everyday expression of faith. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341831 |