Down to Earth: Studies in Christianity and Culture: The Papers of the Lausanne Consultation on Gospel and Culture

by Robert Coote

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802818277
• ISBN13: 9780802818270
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

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Papers presented at Lausanne's Willowbank Consultation on Gospel and Culture

I remember being very moved years ago reading John Stott's words introducing this book: "We take culture seriously because Christ has taken our culture seriously." It changed the way I thought about both Christ and our missional responsibility to the world we live in. Down to Earth brings together the papers presented at the Willowbank Consultation on Gospel and Culture (January 6-13, 1978), which was briefly summarized in the Lausanne Occasional Paper "The Willowbank Report on Gospel and Culture" (available online at the Lausanne website.) Stott elsewhere summarizes the report: "Cross-cultural messengers of the gospel have to ask themselves: 'How can I, having been born and raised in one culture, take the gospel from Scripture which was written in other cultures, and communicate it to people in a third culture, without either distorting the message or rendering it unintelligible?' To help us to answer this question, the report contains both a moving analysis of missionary humility and a reflection on the Incarnation as a model of Christian witness." (Making Christ Known: Historic Mission Documents from the Lausanne Movement, 1974-1989 [Eerdmans, 1997], page xvii.) Includes papers presented by (among others) I. Howard Marshall, Bruce J. Nichols, C. Rene Padilla, Charles R. Taber, James I. Packer, Jacob A. Loewen, Stephen C. Neill, and Kenneth Cragg.