Contemporary Approaches to Contextualization

by Dr. Phil Parshall

Too long the church has been programmed to accept the inevitabilities of meager results in the efforts toward Muslim evangelization. The reasons for this failure in mission must now be probed and resolved as the world today is coming alive to the presence of the Muslim religious community. The author asks the missions world to forsake former presuppositions, and to become conscious of God speaking in a new and fresh manner--not in regard to His changeless Word--but in areas of extra-biblical methodology.

It was this book which gave new biblical meaning to the word contextualization and made that word the hot topic that it is in Muslim ministry today.

If we are truly gripped by the Revelation 7:9 vision of a vast worshiping multitude washed in the blood of the Lamb from every tribe and tongue and people and nation then we will long to join together with Muslims who have embraced Jesus as they bring the cultural wealth of their nations in worship to the Lamb. ---Ramsay Haris from the forward

Phil Parshall is one of the leading authorities on ministry to Muslims. He and his wife Julie have lived among Muslims since 1962 first with International Christian Fellowship (now SIM) in Bangladesh and presently in the Philippines. He holds a doctorate from Fuller Seminary and has had fellowships with Harvard and Yale Universities. He is published in a number of Christian magazines and has authored nine books.

Paperback. 320 pages. (5-1/2" x 8-1/2")