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Gospel , Culture and Communication : In ~ earch of a New Paradigm
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Singh, M. Peter Singh, Mahendra P. |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Christian movement, throughout the centuries has seen a continual tension, whether in the form of synthesis of gospel, culture and communication, or separation of gospel from culture and communication. The conservatives ask the question, must one become civilized before communicating the gospel, or should one concentrate on communicating the gospel, confident that civilization will follow? They were committed to the culture of the West, which they communicated equally along with the Gospel. In the light of this view on the intertwining of the gospel, culture and communication, we understand that the gospel has been communicated to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as 'pure' gospel isolated from culture. The gospel did not come in its pure form, but was already acculturated in Hebraic, Greco-Latin and later European cultures. "The gospel had the trade-markofwestem Christianity. "1 Therefore, along with the gospel, 'a foreign-oriented' culture has been communicated to India. Having realized this fact, many Indian think~ts tried to 'transplant' Christianity from the Western soil and plant it in Indian fertile soil and!allow it to grow with the aim "let the Indian Church be Indian". In the mean time, the communication technological revolution took place. First, it was considered as an evil and Christians advocated not to use the electronic media. Then, they slowly understood it as a gift of God and at least slowly, started using them in communicating the gospel. Now, media has taken a commercial shape and media owners think that they can sell any product by using 'persuasive model' of communication. Like, the form in which the gospel has been preached in India, media technology too made an entry in to India along with a heavy dose of Western cultural images, norms, values and information. Until recently efforts were made to study the relationship between the 'gospel and culture' with a view towards acculturation. Today, a new trend has emerged that goes 'beyond acculturation' and includes communication as a part and parcel of gospel and culture. This paper is an attempt to study, how gospel, culture and communication interact with each other with the aim of developing a new paradigm for the mission of the church in India. |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
