Contextualization & Syncretism

by Gailyn Van Rheenen (Editor)

Culture's influence upon Christianity is easier to discern in retrospect than in prospect. If history is our guide, one thing is This age will be as syncretistic as any other...How is the gospel being contextualized in the contemporary world? To what degree are these new contextualizations syncretistic? This book attempts to answer these questions by defining and analyzing contextualization and syncretism.

354 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

Reviews

[Kat Long]

This was book #4 about Contextualization this semester, and when I started it I assumed the previous three books had say everything there was to say about Contextualization. Apparently there was more. This book focuses on Syncretism much more than the others I’ve read, and shows the way that it arises in Contextualization efforts. I found this to be a really helpful book. The last second has a ton of case studies that give examples of ways syncretism has appeared all over the world in different missions efforts. Super interesting.

[Eleanor Shepherd]

Impressive. Gave me an appreciation of the scope of contextualization.