Lesson 12

Question 1

What is the nature of culture as defined by the Lausanne Covenant?

Answer 1

the identification of Christianity with a culture or cultural expression

Question 2

Contextualization is two things. What are they?

Answer 2

Form and Freedom

Question 3

What is one of the most common errors in the history of missions regarding culture?

Answer 3

Just went after behaviors, not worldviews

Question 4

What is the multi-layered understanding of culture from inner worldview to outer behaviors?

Answer 4

Worldview - what is real
Beliefs - what is true/false
Values - what is good/bad
Behavior - what I do/don’t do

Question 5

What is ethnocentrism? What effects does it have in missions?

Answer 5

Under-adapting (isolationist)
“The belief that one’s own culture, race, or nation is superior to all others; the view that one’s cultural ways of doing things is the correct and only way; the tendency to judge the behavior of people in other cultures by the values and assumptions of our own.”

Question 6

What is syncretism? What effects does it have in missions?

Answer 6

Over-adapting
“The mixture of meanings from the respondent culture with new
meanings from Scripture in such a way that the essential nature of each is lost.

Question 7

If under-adapting is legalism, what is over-adapting?

Answer 7

Syncretism (Antimoniams)

Question 8

What are the goals of contextualization?

Answer 8

communicate the gospel into their culture without compromise