Transforming Communication

Progressing from Cross-Cultural to Intercultural Communication of Christ

Dr. Vee J. D-Davidson

• Editorial: Zondervan Academic
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9780310124399
• Categoría: Theologie & Religion
• Categoría: Christlicher Dienst

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.

Índice

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1. Foundations for Communicating Christ
• 2. Communication Theory and Models of Communication
• 3. Communication With Respect to Culture and Behavior
• 4. Communication In Relation to Cultural Aspects Pertaining to Societal Structures
• 5. Supracultural Perspectives On Communication, Personality, and Temperament
• 6. Communication and Conflict Due to Cultural Differences
• 7. Cognitive Perceptions of Reality, Truth, and Epistemology
• 8. Progress into Interculturality
• 9. Christian Communicators and Contextualization
• 10. Communication In Relation to Biblical Interpretation
• 11. Communication and Spiritual Growth: Teaching and Learning In Cultural Perspective
• 12. Communication and Spiritual Growth: Communicating for Spiritual Maturity and Multiplication
• Appendix 1: Personality Analysis Tool
• Appendix 2: Owned Characteristics of Multiple Different Cultures
• Bibliography
• Index