Preparing Missionaries for Intercultural Communication: A Bi-cultural Approach

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William Carey Library, 1985 - 204 páginas

A Bi-cultural Approach


Missionaries often receive little training in understanding the world in which we live and some experience great hardship out in the field as a result. The purpose of Preparing Missionaries for Intercultural Communication is to enable cross-cultural missionaries to be more adequately prepared for the task of intelligent communication. Lyman E. Reed sets forth the major areas which are important in training the missionary to communicate with other cultures.


By being prepared for cross-cultural communication, the missionary will be more sensitive to the needs of others in a cross-cultural context and thereby be a better communicator of the Christian message, being less ethnocentric and more appreciative of national believers and their worldview.

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The Need for the Missionary to Understand the World
13
The Need to Understand Social Structures
33
The Need for Adequate Language Learning
59
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79
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163
Conclusions
181
Bibliography
187
Index
201
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LYMAN E. REED, D. Miss., was Professor of Bible and Missions for 17 years at Briercrest Bible College and Graduate School, Caronport, Saskatchewan, Can-ada, where he now serves as Adjunct Professor. He formerly served with the Overseas Missionary Fel-lowship in North Thailand for 12 years doing pi-oneer evangelism and church planting. He received his B.A. from Columbia Bible College, his M.A. grom Wheaton Graduate School, and his Doctor of Mis-siology from the School of World Missions, Fuller Theological Seminary. Currently Dr. Reed is Ca-nadian Midwest Director for OMF International and resides in Caronport, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is married and has four grown sons. Dr. Reed is a member of the American Society of Missiology Evangelical Society of Missiology World Evangelical Fellowship.

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