About Face: Rethinking Face for 21st Century Mission (American Society of Missiology Monograph Series): 9 - Brossura

Libro 54 di 72: American Society of Missiology Monograph Series

Flanders, Christopher L.

 
9781608995233: About Face: Rethinking Face for 21st Century Mission (American Society of Missiology Monograph Series): 9
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ISBN 10: 1608995232 ISBN 13: 9781608995233
Casa editrice: Pickwick Publications, 2011

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"For Thais, face is a fact" writes Flanders. However, "whether in theology, evangelism, or issues involving sin, salvation, or atonement, Thai Christians and missionaries alike seem either uninterested in or possibly incapable of addressing issues related to face. This glaring incongruity between the value of face for Thais and the lack of intentional engagement within the Thai Christian community is deeply troubling. "Surely, such a lack of careful attention to face is a dangerous posture. Uncritical views of face, furtively attaching to the theology of the Thai church, are potentially detrimental for its life and mission. Such seems to be an unavoidable situation without proper attention to face. Additionally, to ignore face is to run the risk of missing valuable cultural resources, implicit in the Thai experience of face, for the critical task of authentic Thai theological reflection. "This lack of engagement with face raises critical issues with which we must wrestle. How is it that such a central sociocultural issue has not been a more significant part of the Thai Christian vocabulary or experience? How pervasive are these negative attitudes regarding face? What lies behind them? Might this lack of self-conscious engagement with face have any relationship to the persistent Thai perception of Christianity as a foreign, Western religion? How should Christians understand this notion of face and how it relates to the ways we understand and proclaim the gospel"

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Informazioni sull'autore

Christopher Flanders is Associate Professor of Missions at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. He also directs the Halbert Institute for Missions at ACU.

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Editore
Pickwick Publications
Data di pubblicazione
2011
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Inglese
ISBN 10 
1608995232
ISBN 13 
9781608995233
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Numero di pagine
322
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