The Gospel in Human Contexts by Paul G. Hiebert

Author:Paul G. Hiebert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Missions/Anthropology, Missions—Theory, Missions—Anthropological aspects, Missions—Anthropological aspects, REL045000
ISBN: 9781441211316
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2009-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

1. If modernity saw knowledge as a photograph, postmodernity sees it as a collage—a patchwork of many different pictures thrown together somewhat randomly on a page. Levi-Strauss referred to this as bricolage—building a house using the odds and ends of materials at hand.

2. Epistemologically, this was a shift to instrumentalism. Cf. Hiebert 1999.

3. W. Lloyd Warner did anthropological field studies in Australia, but eventually became known primarily as a sociologist studying class in North American cities.

4. A. F. C. Wallace’s analysis of revitalization movements as reactions to modernity can help us understand fundamentalist and other religious and political movements.

5. In Scripture, to “know” takes on different meanings. Sometimes it is “to know about” something. This kind of knowing is at the heart of science. Sometimes it is a far deeper, more intimate, relational knowing, as in the case of the marriage of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4:1). It is this kind of knowledge that interpretive anthropology seeks to understand—namely, intimate knowledge of another, not simply knowledge about them.

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