Transforming Communication
Progressing from Cross-Cultural to Intercultural Communication of Christ
- Evangelism & Missions
- Publisher: Zondervan Academic (Zondervan)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Effectively communicate Christ across Cultures The gospel message transcends cultures, but human communication does not. In Transforming Communication missionary and professor Vee J. D-Davidson provides principles for the intercultural communication of Christ. Using her twenty-five-plus years of experience teaching as a Westerner in Asia as a starting point, Davidson provides transferable principles that encourage awareness of context-specific issues and that see opportunities for intercultural communication as wholly unique opportunities, regardless of any perceived communication barriers. Readers from multiple different cultures will be able to apply the principles presented by use of relevant examples, illustrations, and enlightening insights provided from a wide range of Global South and Global North multicultural and intercultural perspectives. Transforming Communication offers practical principles to encourage and challenge Christian readers to build relationships that might well require engaging with issues that bring them out of their comfort zone but, the book also offers insights and encouraging devotional nuggets that feed into a triad of knowledge-impartation, self-examination and challenge, along with spiritual enrichment for the task.
Endorsements (1)
“Evangelical missions theory has too often conceived what is termed cross-cultural communication as an obstacle race in which missionaries strive to surmount the hurdles of understanding alien cultures in order to reach the finishing line of winning converts. Vee J. D-Davidson’s book challenges this assumption by employing instead the concept of intercultural communication, a two-way process in which communicators and recipients of the message enter into a mutual relationship and together bring their cultural understandings under the authority of the gospel. This well-written book will guide both students and practitioners of Christian mission from Global North and Global South backgrounds into wise pathways of missional discipleship.”
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