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245187 Disc Missions ins 9/6/07 1:04 PM Page 222 222 Glossary creative access areas—places in the world that are politically resistant or even closed to traditional Christian missionary activity and where Christians seek to minister in creative ways such as teaching English, doing medical work, getting a job, or setting up a business cultural adjustment—four- to five-stage emotional roller-coaster process of acculturation that includes gloomy and depressing times as well as exhilarating ones cultural anthropology—study of humanity, especially as it relates to cultures cultural evolution—a now outdated theory that the cultural universals of all societies are moving from simple to complex and from primitive to more civilized cultural relativity—the attempt to understand societies and people groups on their own terms and with their own value systems cultural universals—categories of things like communication, law, economics, and religious systems that occur in every culture culture—complex, integrated coping mechanism consisting of learned concepts and behavior, underlying perspectives (worldview), resulting products, customs and rituals, and material artifacts culture-bound—in linguistics, those words used in a language that are very difficult to express in another language because they refer to something present only in one particular culture culture shock—part of the cultural adjustment process in which feelings of disorientation and frustration are experienced as people try to assimilate unfamiliar things of a new culture dependency—lack of independence or self-sufficiency; in Christian mission it usually refers to financial dependency Diaspora—the dispersion or scattering of a people group outside of their native area dynamic equivalence—thought-for-thought translation style first articulated by Eugene Nida that attempts to evoke the same response in readers that was experienced by the original readers ecclesiology—beliefs about the nature, function, and purpose of church, a doctrine that missiologist John Howard Yoder said is inextricably linked to missiology enculturation—process in which children learn the culture of the society in which they are raised; sociologists give the name socialization to this process ethnocentrism—judging things in other cultures by the values and motivations of one’s own excluded middle—as it relates to Christian mission, the idea that all that exists is God and the created world; there are no other significant supernatural realities exegeting the culture—the process of analyzing and interpreting the attitudes, customs, and ideas of a particular area, including the various social, religious, economic, and other cues and clues by which those within a society make sense of their own activities expatriate (often shortened to expat)–-someone who is in a country other than that of his or her upbringing faith missions–-individuals or organizations who have no parent body helping to mobilize financial support; the largest Protestant missionary sending organizations are
245187 Disc Missions ins 9/6/07 1:04 PM Page 223 Glossary 223 now faith missions; “praying in support” is often the phrase used to talk about how finances are sought after fieldwork—living among a people for the purpose of learning their culture form—object, sound, or action to which people have attached special meaning fourth self—Paul Hiebert’s call for self-theologizing to be added to the three-selfs of Venn and Anderson frontier missions—missionary efforts in unreached or underevangelized areas function—significance or meaning placed upon an object, sound, or action by a particular culture functional substitute—alternative form that provides the basically same function for a culture as the original futurology—forecasting the future based on current trends gateway cities—100 cities that missiologists consider key doorways through which the gospel may flow to unreached cultural groups general call—the call to the Church as a whole to get the gospel to every person; by implication, then, every Christian is to be a witness for God globalization—the unprecedented 20th- and 21st-century integration of economic, cultural, political, and social systems across political boundaries and geographic distances glocalization—a word combining globalization and localization to describe the emergence of local adaptations within the larger processes of globalization gôyim—Hebrew word used about 500 times in the Old Testament that means “nations” or “peoples” Great Commission—Jesus’ words in Matthew 28:19-20 in which He sends His followers to all nations; words that are sometimes called the marching orders of the Church Haystack Prayer Meeting—an 1806 prayer meeting for world evangelism by Williams College students who had sought shelter from rain in the lee of a haystack heart language—a person’s first language; also called native language or mother tongue holistic—the perspective that sees the emotional, spiritual, social, and mental well-being of people as one unified package homogenous unit principle—Donald McGavran’s enunciation of the idea that people like to become Christian without feeling they have to cross social, class, economic, or cultural barriers incarnational—living out the life of Christ and the ideals of His kingdom before unbelievers inclusivism—view that while Christ alone saves, a person could conceivably be led to respond to God’s grace through natural revelation or even visions and dreams identification—assuming the characteristics of others in order to create a bond; one of the characteristics of mission that grounds it in the divine Trinity indigenization—transforming something to fit a local culture so that it has a feel of belonging to that environment; a concept similar to though not identical to contextualization indigenous church—a church that looks and feels like it belongs in a given cultural context rather than being a foreign import
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