Global Arts and Christian Witness (Mission in Global Community): Exegeting Culture, Translating the Message, and Communicating Christ

Global Arts and Christian Witness (Mission in Global Community): Exegeting Culture, Translating the Message, and Communicating Christ

Global Arts and Christian Witness (Mission in Global Community): Exegeting Culture, Translating the Message, and Communicating Christ

Global Arts and Christian Witness (Mission in Global Community): Exegeting Culture, Translating the Message, and Communicating Christ

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Overview

Veteran missionary-scholar Roberta King draws on a lifetime of study and firsthand mission experience to show how witness through contextualized global arts can dynamically reveal Christ to all peoples. King offers the global church biblical foundations, historical pathways, theoretical frameworks, and effective practices for communicating Christ through the arts in diverse contexts. Supplemented with stories from the field, illustrations, and discussion questions, this textbook offers innovative and dynamic approaches essential for doing mission in transformative ways through the arts. It also features a full-color insert of artwork discussed in the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493418107
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 07/16/2019
Series: Mission in Global Community
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 44 MB
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About the Author

Roberta R. King (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is professor of communication and ethnomusicology in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. She previously served as a missionary and professor in Kenya for twenty years and has written several books.
Roberta R. King (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is professor of communication and ethnomusicology in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. She previously served as a missionary and professor in Kenya for twenty years and is a past president of the APM (American Professors of Mission). She is the author of Pathways in Christian Music Communication and coauthor of Music in the Life of the African Church. King also coproduced (un)Common Sounds: Songs of Peace and Reconciliation among Muslims and Christians, which received national airplay on ABC TV.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword by Mark Labberton
Prelude: My Art, God's Mission?
Part 1: Foundations in Global Arts and Christ-Centered Witness
1. Negotiating Faith and Culture
2. Communicating Christ through Global Arts
Part 2: Encountering Christ through Global Arts
3. Exegeting Cultures through Global Arts
4. Translating the Message via Global Arts
5. Theologizing with Global Arts
Part 3: Engaging Peoples for Christ via Global Arts
6. Contextualizing the Gospel in Daily Life via Global Arts
7. Telling God's Story among Oral and Postliterate Peoples
8. Global Arts in Peacebuilding and Interfaith Dialogue
9. Appropriating Global Arts in Multicultural Settings
Postlude: Revealing God's Glory and Salvation via Global Arts
Index
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