Communicating Christ cross-culturally : an introduction to missionary communication

COMMUNICATING
	CHRIST
	Communication, The Missionaiy Problem Par Excellence
	Man,
	The Communicating Creature
	The Legacy of Rhetoric to
	Christian Communication
	RHETORIC AND HOMILETICS
	RHETORIC AND COMMUNICATION THEORY IN ITS LARGER DIMENSIONS
	Perspectives From the Science of Communication
	A BASIC MODEL OF THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS
	PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY SOURCES
	RESPONDENTS AND THEIR RESPONSES
	THE ENCODING AND DECODING PROCESSES
	VERBAL AND NONVERBAL CODES
	COMMUNICATION CHANNELS AND MEDIA
	FEEDBACK
	NOISE
	COMMUNICATION AND CONTEXT
	The Problem of Meaning
	A THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF SOME DISCUSSIONS ON MEANING
	WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SYMBOLS "MEAN"?
	WHERE IS MEANING TO BE FOUND?
	THE MEANING OF RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS
	HOW CAN WE DETERMINE WHAT VERBAL SYMBOLS MEAN?
	Why Do Missionaries Communicate?
	THE NEW TESTAMENT CASE FOR PERSUASION
	INSIGHTS FROM COMMUNICATION THEORY
	CONCLUSION TO PART I
	The Role of Culture In Communication
	THE CULTURAL BARRIER TO MISSIONARY COMMUNICATION
	"MULTIPLE RHETORICS" AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
	UNDERSTANDING CULTURE
	UNDERSTANDING CULTURES
	A THREE-CULTURE MODEL OF MISSIONARY COMMUNICATION
	Christ and His Communicators Confront Culture
	THE TENSION BETWEEN CHRIST AND CULTURE
	CULTURE—THE HIGH VIEW
	CULTURAL RELATIVISM
	ANALYZING THE RESPONDENT CULTURE
	TRANSFORMING CULTURE
	Contextualization— Its Theological Roots
	WHAT WORD SHALL WE CHOOSE?
	THE GENESIS OF A NEW WORD
	SO WHAT DOES “CONTEXTUALIZATION” MEAN?
	CONTEXTUALIZATION—A BRIEF THEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
	THE SPEAKER OR SOURCE OF THE MISSIONARY MESSAGE
	THE CONTENT OF THE MISSIONARY MESSAGE
	THE STYLE OF THE MISSIONARY MESSAGE
	THE "SEVEN DIMENSIONS" OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
	CULTURAL DISTANCE
	Respondents of Other Cultures
	CROSS-CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION
	RESPONDENT ACTIVITIES
	RESPONDENT RESPONSE
	CONCLUSION TO PART II
	Worldviews and Cross-Cultural Communication
	CULTURE AND WORLDVIEW
	DEFINING “WORLDVIEW7'
	CATEGORIZING WORLDVIEWS
	CHARACTERIZING WORLDVIEWS
	BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
	COMMUNICATING CHRIST IN THE CONTEXTS OF NON-CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEWS
	Communicating Christ Into The
	Naturalist Worldview
	CHARACTERIZING THE NATURALIST WORLDVIEW
	COMMUNICATING INTO A NATURALIST WORLDVIEW
	Communicating Christ Into The Tribal Worldview
	DEFINING THE TRIBAL WORLDVIEW
	CHARACTERIZING THE WORLDVIEW OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
	COMMUNICATING CHRIST TO PEOPLE WITH A TRIBAL WORLDVIEW
	Communicating Christ Into The Hindu-Buddhistic Worldview
	THE IDEAS AND DEVELOPMENT OF HINDUISM
	THE IDEAS AND DEVELOPMENT OF BUDDHISM
	COMMUNICATING CHRIST TO HINDUS AND BUDDHISTS
	Communicating Christ Into A Chinese Worldview
	THE WORLDVIEW OF ANCIENT CHINA
	THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF LAO-TZU AND CONFUCIUS
	THE INDIAN AND CHINESE WORLDVIEWS COMPARED
	THE CHINESE WORLDVIEW AND THE COMMUNICATION OF CHRIST
	Communicating Christ Into Monotheistic Worldviews
	THE CHALLENGES OF JUDAISM AND ISLAM
	COMMUNICATING CHRIST TO MUSLIMS AND JEWS
	Communicating Christ Into The Worldviews of Syncretism and Multireligion
	SYNCRETISM
	MULTIRELIGION
	CONCLUSION TO PART III
	The Importance of How We Know What We Know
	"THINKING ABOUT THINKING"
	COGNITIVE PROCESS
	COGNITIVE MAPS
	THE “MIND OF A PEOPLE"
	Cultural Differences and the
	Cognitive Process
	THE BISYSTEMIC APPROACHES OF S. L. GULICK AND F. C. S. NORTHROP
	THE TRISYSTEMIC APPROACH OF F. H. SMITH
	Conceptual Thinking and The Western Missionary
	MYSTICAL THOUGHT
	UNDERSTANDING INTUITIONAL THINKING
	COMMUNICATING CHRIST TO INTUITIONALISTS
	TRIBAL PEOPLES AS CONCRETE RELATIONAL THINKERS
	CHINESE PEOPLE AS CONCRETE RELATIONAL THINKERS
	UNDERSTANDING CONCRETE RELATIONAL THINKING
	SUGGESTIONS FOR COMMUNICATING CHRIST TO CONCRETE RELATIONALISTS
	CONCLUSION TO PART IV
	The Importance of Language
	Why Bother to Learn The Language?
	LANGUAGE AS A VEHICLE FOR GOSPEL COMMUNICATION
	ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA FOR MISSIONARY COMMUNICATION
	THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF THE RECEPTOR CULTURE
	Learning About Language Learning
	UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES
	APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE LEARNING
	LEARNING A LANGUAGE BY "CULTURAL SUBMERSION”
	What Gan We Learn From Language?
	THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS
	LINGUISTIC MIRRORS OF CULTURE
	THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND RECEPTIVITY
	CONCLUSION TO PART V
	From Plato and Aristotle to Edward T. Hall
	THE TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR
	THE APPROACH OF EDWARD T. HALL
	TYPES OF "SILENT LANGUAGE" BEHAVIOR
	The Missionary and Behavioral Norms
	OBEDIENCE TO THE WILL OF GOD
	ACCOMMODATION TO CULTURAL NORMS
	WHEN IN ROME AND IN DOUBT
	Seven Aspects of The “Behavioral Dimension”
	"BODY LANGUAGE"
	"TOUCHING BEHAVIOR"
	SPACE SPEAKS
	TIME TALKS
	PARALANGUAGE
	ARTIFACTS AND ENVIRONMENT
	Where The Action Is
	CONCLUSION TO PART VI
	Communication and Societal Orientations
	Status and Role
	THE STATUS AND ROLE OF THE MISSIONARY COMMUNICATOR
	WHO ARE MY RESPONDENTS IN RELATION TO OTHER MEMBERS OF THEIR SOCIETY?
	Kinship: Kindred and Lineage
	Nonkinship Groupings
	GLASS IN THE PHILIPPINES
	NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS IN JAPAN
	Urban and Rural Societies
	CITY SOCIETIES
	PEASANT AND TRIBAL SOCIETIES
	Free and Totalitarian Societies
	CONCLUSION TO PART VII
	Media Have Their Own “Messages”
	"MEDIA” AND "MESSAGE” ACCORDING TO MCLUHAN
	TYPES OF “MEDIA" AND THEIR “MESSAGES"
	LEARNING FROM MCLUHAN
	Using Simple Media
	THE POTENTIAL OF AURAL MEDIA
	TALK AND CHALK
	DRAMA, RITUAL, MUSIC, AND DANCE
	Using Syndetic Media
	SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION
	THE PRINT MEDIA
	THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA
	PLATFORM MEDIA
	OTHER MEDIA
	MIXING AND MATCHING MEDIA
	THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
	CONCLUSION TO PART VIII
	From Persuasion to Elenctics
	HAVE WE THE RIGHT?
	HAVE WE THE RESOURCES?
	Psychology, Ethnopsychology, and Mission
	MOTIVATION AND CULTURAL PATTERNS
	POINTS OF CONTACT
	MISSIONARY APPEALS
	Motivation, Decision Making, and Conversion
	DECISION AND NONDECISION ORIENTATIONS
	GROUP CONVERSION AND CONSENSUS DECISION MAKING
	CONVERSION AND DECISION MAKING AS POINT AND PROCESS
	PROFIT EQUALS REWARD MINUS GOST
	THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MOTIVATION FOR CONVERSION AND CHRISTIAN ATTAINMENT
	Receptivity and Missionary Response
	TIMING
	SEQUENCE
	RELEVANCE
	CONCLUSION TO PART IX