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Article: Contextualization: Origins, Meaning and Implications: A Study of What the Theological Education Fund of the World Council of Churches Originally Understood by the Term "Contextualization," with Special Reference to the Period 1970-1972.(Review)
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- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
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- March 22, 1997
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William P. Russell, Rome: Tipografia Poliglotta della Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, 1995. Pp. 515. $20.00 (ppd. from: The Secretary General, Missionari d'Africa [Padri Bianchi], Via Aurelia 269, 00165 Roma, Italy), paper.
Participants in the 1910 World Missionary Conference, held in Edinburgh, "acknowledged that theological education was one of the weakest elements in the Protestant missionary enterprise," because theological training in what we now call "Third World areas" was not appropriate to the situations of those being taught. It was clear to many that "Western theology, with its inevitable particularity, could not be transplanted wholesale and without ...