Worldview for Christian witness / Charles H. Kraft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kraft, Charles H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions.

Anthropology of religion.

Christianity and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California : William Carey Library, [2008]

Summary:

In Worldview for Christian Witness, Charles Kraft invites readers to understand REALITY as God sees it by learning to take seriously the insights of other societies. The diversity of cultures can seem obvious, but to really understand the significance of those surface level differences, one needs to understand the deep level assumptions on which they are based.--publisher.

Contents:

Part 1: The Perspective; 1. Why Should Christians Study Worldview?; 2. People, Worldview & Change; 3. Critical Realism; 4. Current Approaches of Non-anthropologists; 5. Other Approaches: Anthropological; 6. Worldview, Religion & Subsystems; Part 2: Characteristics of Worldviews; 7. Functions of Worldview; 8. Universals: Categorization, Person/Group; 9. Worldview Universals: Relationship, Causality; 10. Universals: Time/Event, Space/Material World; 11. Worldview Orientations & Types; 12. Worldview Configurations; 13. Discovering Worldview14. What Are We Taking to the World?; 15. How Are Worldviews Changed?; Part 3: Worldview Change; 16. Obstacles & Opportunities in Worldview Change: Person/Group; 17. Obstacles & Opportunities in Worldview Change II: Categorization, Causality, Time, Space, Relationship; 18. Patterns of Worldview Change; 19. Strategies for Constructive Change; 20. Reaching Peoples of Three Types; 21. Wrapping Things Up; Appendix A. History of the Concept of Worldview in American Anthropology; Appendix B. Additional Worldview Configurations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [549]-553) and indexes.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780878086481

087808648X