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In the Image of God He Created Man
Contextualization
1. Contextualization & the Sociocultural Adequacy Principle
Contextualization is all about a new way of doing evangelism, church planting, and community development. To my surprise, I discovered this new way to do missiology had combined empiricism, the beliefs that all meanings are derived from sense perceptions, and theology, thereby relativizing the absolute. The result? "Biblical relativism." “Biblical cultural relativism postulates that God recognizes and employs the sociocultural adequacy principle.”
2. The Relativizing of Meaning in the Postmodern World
Paul's ministry focused on using "sound" or "healthy" words, that is, words whose meanings were fixed, unchanging, and did not a), "belong to the people," nor were they b), shaped by human experience or SOCIAL EXISTENCE. Paul was aware that any divergence whatsoever from their inherent meanings was the first "stepping stone from truth into falsehood."
3. Misrepresentations of God's Truth
Paul's ministry focused on using "sound" or "healthy" words, that is, words whose meanings were fixed, unchanging, and did not a), "belong to the people," nor were they b), shaped by human experience or SOCIAL EXISTENCE. Paul was aware that any divergence whatsoever from their inherent meanings was the first "stepping stone from truth into falsehood."
4. Contextualism, Empiricism, and Innatism
Long before Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711- 1776 ) "argued that the total content of the mind can be reduced to data produced by sensory experiences, or perceptions," Winnebago philosophers of an other age were warning their listeners, "Don't trust your perceptions! If you do, you will cause yourself great pain."
