Communicating Christ Through Story and Song (SEANET 5)
Paul H. de Neui is an ordained minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church. He and his wife served as missionaries with church planting and community development organizations in northeast Thailand from 1987–2005. He completed his PhD in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Paul has been involved in SEANET for many years, dedicated to seeing the writings of emerging non-Western and other practitioners in print for the benefit of the global church. Presently he is the professor of missiology and intercultural studies and the director of the Center for World Christian Studies at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL.
Missionaries coming from the so-called literate world have much to learn from the application of principles behind oral communication. However, many will not hear these principles until they appear in print. It is for this reason that the Southeast Asian Network (SEANET) proudly presents the fifth volume, Communicating Christ Through Story and Song. Each of the forum presenters is both practitioner and missological reflector serving in the Buddhist world and is experienced in the areas in which they write.
Communicating Christ Through Story and Song, the fifth volume in the Buddhist World series, presents models and case studies of communication of the Gospel through orality in Southeast Asia. With contributions from seasoned practitioners working in Cambodia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and the Philippines, this insightful book explores the Biblical foundations – and the cultural imperative – of employing oral tradition to effectively communicate in Buddhist contexts.
May this volume enable the global Christian community to listen and learn from those to whom orality is the main form of communication of the gospel as God's song and story goes on.
Introduction
Contributors
Part I Biblical and Cultural Foundations of Orality in Christian Communication
1. Communication and Continuity Through Oral Transmission by Alex G. Smith
2. Biblical Worship Rediscovered: A Theology for Communicating Basic Christianity by David S. Lim
3. Christian Evangelistic Preaching As Ritual Speech in a Buddhist Context by Frances S. Adeney
4. Feeding Giraffes, Counting Crows and Missing True Learners: The Challenge of Buddhist Oral Communicators by Miriam Adeney
5. Three Reasons Why Christian Witness to Buddhists Has Failed by Terry C. Muck
Part II Communicating Christ Though Story and Song in Buddhist Contexts
6. From the Biblical World to the Buddhist Worldview: Using Biblical Narratives to Impact at the Heart Level by A. Steven Evans
7. The Use for Story and Song in Sinhalese Buddhist Funerals by G.P.V. Somaratna
8. Moving Towards Oral Communication of the Gospel: Experiences from Cambodia by Dale Jones
9. Communicating the Gospel Through Story and Song in Cambodia by Barnabas Mam as told to Bruce Hutchinson
10. Gospel Communication in Tibetan Song by John Oswald
References
Index
Author
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Paul H. De Neui
Paul H. De Neui
Paul H. de Neui is an ordained minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church. He and his wife served as missionaries with church planting and community development organizations in northeast Thailand from 1987–2005. He completed his PhD in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Paul has been involved in SEANET for many years, dedicated to seeing the writings of emerging non-Western and other practitioners in print for the benefit of the global church. Presently he is the professor of missiology and intercultural studies and the director of the Center for World Christian Studies at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL.
- Pages: 316
- Publisher:
William Carey Publishing
William Carey Publishing
- Binding: Paperback
- Publish Year: 2018
- Vendor: William Carey Library
