CONTEXTUALISATION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
Patterns for theology and mission
By Dean Fleming. Apollos. 344 pages. £14.99
ISBN 1 84474 100 7
There is a lot of nonsense talked about contextualisation, and many attempts at making the gospel relevant in different cultures end up stripping the gospel of much of its content.
It is possible even worse when people receive a form of the gospel that never addresses their heart problems so that they have a Christian skin that covers, say, a Buddhist heart. Dean Fleming looks at the patterns of contextualisation that are in the New Testament, believing that we should go to the New Testament not only for the content of what needs to be communicated, but also for the method of conveying truth between cultures.
