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Cultural Hermeneutics: The World through the Lens of Theology
Cultural Hermeneutics: The World through the Lens of Theology
Roger Standing
SCM Press, 2023, xvi + 224pp., pbk, £25
The gospel is never proclaimed in a vacuum, but to a specific people, language, history, and culture. This point has for many decades been central to the concept of ‘contextualisation’ advanced by overseas Protestant missionaries. Significantly, however, many in that same evangelical tradition have remained resistant to applying that insight to the culture(s) of their home locality and nation. In this book, Roger Standing (formerly Principal of Spurgeon’s College) argues that theology must follow biblical studies and make its own ‘cultural turn’ (139), enabling Christians to recognise the ‘inescapable reality’ of culture in their proclamation of the gospel.
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