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In the past, changes in behavior and in belief have been leading indicators for missionaries that Christian conversion had occurred. But these aloneor even togetherare insufficient for a gospel understanding of conversion. For effective biblical mission, Paul G. Hiebert argues, we must add a third element: a change in worldview. Here he offers a comprehensive study of worldviewits philosophy, its history, its characteristics, and the means for understanding it. He then provides a detailed analysis of several worldviews that missionaries must engage today, addressing the impact of each on Christianity and mission. A biblical worldview is outlined for comparison. Finally, Hiebert argues for gospel ministry that seeks to transform people's worldviews and offers suggestions for how to do so.
- Sales Rank: #264653 in Books
- Published on: 2008-05-01
- Released on: 2008-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .83" w x 6.00" l, 1.31 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
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"Transforming Worldviews is, in many respects, the capstone of Paul Hiebert's work. This book provides valuable insights for all people who engage in God's mission in the varied contexts of the world in this century. It is Hiebert at his best. A superb contribution to missiology. A lasting legacy!"--Tite Ti�nou, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
"Transforming Worldviews is Hiebert at his best! For the first time, all of his major missiological insights--from set theory in church growth to the flaw of the excluded middle to critical contextualization--are integrated into a single volume. Transforming Worldviews, in which Hiebert wrestles with one of the most difficult concepts for us to understand and explain, is a fitting exclamation point to a career in which some of the most important evangelical missiological thinking of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries was done."--A. Scott Moreau, Wheaton College; editor, Evangelical Missions Quarterly
"Paul's wide-ranging scholarship, profound faith in Jesus Christ, deep insight, creative thinking, and wholehearted commitment to world evangelization are all evident here. Paul is a mentor, teacher, and guide to all of us involved in thinking about the mission of the church. This book is a wonderful example of his stimulating thought. Everyone interested in communicating the gospel among today's multiplicity of cultures will want to listen to what Paul Hiebert says in this book."--Charles Van Engen, Fuller Theological Seminary; founder and president of Latin American Christian Ministries
"The late Paul Hiebert's work on worldviews is mission anthropology at its best. This book is his final testimony to the centrality of worldview transformation at the heart of biblical conversion. It is an instant classic--clear, readable, useful, and compelling."--Dana L. Robert, Boston University School of Theology
"If you could pick one missiologist to sort out the tangled nest that surrounds the word/concept 'worldview,' it would be Paul Hiebert. In Transforming Worldviews, Hiebert does not disappoint. Once again he surveys the landscape majestically, explains clearly, and proposes wisely and faithfully."--Terry C. Muck, Asbury Theological Seminary
About the Author
Paul G. Hiebert (1932-2007) was distinguished professor of mission and anthropology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and previously taught at Fuller Theological Seminary. He also served as a pastor and missionary to India. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota and was the author or coauthor of numerous articles and books in the fields of anthropology and missions.
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49 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
A fantastic and important work
By Michael K. Severe
Transforming worldviews covers a full range of anthropological ideas and applies them to the concept of worldview. Scholarly in nature, its tone is readable and it applies important and diverse disciplines and concepts to thinking about worldview. This book is a major contribution. It is not just discussion of worldview but how worldviews are formed, how they may be critiqued and how they can be transformed. Very interesting discussions and applications of modernism, postmodernism, semiotics (sign theory), cultural analysis, and "glocalization." Plenty of illustrations and charts that assemble, systematize, illustrate and make understandable a vast array of information.
This book broke away from the typical simple and unhelpful discussions of worldview and places it within its scholarly debate and research. Hiebert deftly applies worldview to Christian missions and church work. He offers significant and helpful insights into ourselves and our culture as well as ways to engage and change.
Personally this work challenged my perceptions of worldview, knowledge and culture while introducing me to many new disciplines and concepts.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Easier Said than Done
By M. Edwards
Out of the 30 books I've read so far this year and the 6 or 7 of a theological/missiological nature, this is the meatiest of all (It's probably also one of the fattest at 333 pages). I would highly recommend it not just for Christian international workers, but especially for North American pastors and Christian workers as well, as all too often we are completely blind to the assumptions that lie behind our worldviews as they persist unchallenged in our host cultures.
Beginning with the concept and characteristics of worldviews, the late Dr. Hiebert then moves on to discuss worldviews of small-scale oral societies, peasant societies, modern and postmodern worldviews, and finally, the "glocal" worldview. He then sums up by discussing what a biblical worldview is and how worldviews are transformed.
I found Hiebert's treatment of what he calls "critical realism" (as opposed to positivism and instrumentalism) to be one of many nuggets in the book. Simply put, there must be a great measure of correspondence between the world outside and the worlds we construct inside for us to survive in the world. Human knowledge does not consist of photographs of reality (as positivism suggests) or of collages (as instrumentalism affirms) but of montages and maps that can be tested to determine their truthfulness.
The pictures on pages 318-319 vividly illustrate how different configurations can be imposed on the raw data of our experiences and how people grow in their perception of worldview. The short discussion in the last chapter on people movements and "muliti-individual" conversions was also something I can continue to keep in my mind in my ministry context here.
I am reminded that our role as agents of change is "neither that of the conservative nor that of the anarchist" but that of a subversive agent - to seek to transform worldview gradually from within and to bring people back under the allegiance of the true Lord (p. 322). One way to transform worldviews in the resistant rural society where I am presently living (which reflects aspects of all of the worldviews listed above) might be in focusing to bring change to the families of foreign brides, to help them find stability as entire families are discipled in Jesus Christ.
Certain parts of this book were a little tedious to wade through, and large sections dealing with modernity and postmodernity were expanded treatments of what I learned before from other books and from Hiebert's fellow Trinity professor Tite Tienou 20 years ago when he was at Alliance Theological Seminary. Nevertheless, as I fan through the pages of the book again now I see I underlined multiple sentences on almost every page. Although it will take some time for you to get through, this book will definitely challenge you to think!
Once curiosity that caught my attention is that apparently neither in the chapter about the biblical worldview, nor anywhere else, does Hiebert seem to address the topic of hell. This may be because he prefers to talk in relational and fuzzy categories rather than intrinsic and digital sets (read the book if you do not understand what these terms mean) and in turning away from idols and turning always each day toward the Lord (e.g. "does Jesus remain the ultimate reference point in our understanding of the kingdom? p. 279). Nevertheless, I found the apparent absence of any reference to hell a bit curious.
My only other complaint is that this book does not really talk about how to transform worldviews, as the topic suggested. This is not a how-to book. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the process was that easy?
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Important tool for understanding our own and other worldviews
By Tim Lubinus
Transforming Worldviews is a must read for anyone working or living cross-culturally. Worldview analysis is necessary for understanding and communicating in a new culture. This understanding only comes with careful analysis and reflection, not just more time spent overseas. It is possible to have vast experience living cross-culturally, but still have little understanding of the underlying worldview of that culture.
The first step is to acknowledge how our own worldview (fundamental cognitive, affective, and evaluative presuppositions a group of people make about the nature of things, and which they use to order their lives) interprets and distorts our understanding of other worldviews. It is as if we have a set of glasses permanently affixed to our face through which we interpret all the data that we observe. Because of this, we can not be a neutral observer of other cultures and their worldview.
In Transforming Worldviews, Hiebert helps readers to understand the concept, function, and characteristics of worldviews while coloring his explanations with examples of people interpreting the same data differently because of their worldview discrepancies. When communicating cross-culturally, we need to understand these differences, or we may find that though we have given information clearly based on our worldview, the listener's world view causes him to get a different understanding than we may intend. With fundamental differences in the understanding of creation, time, history, purpose, cause and effect, etc. it is very difficult to get a clear understanding about beliefs and behavior. At times missionaries have focused on transforming a person's beliefs and behavior and later found that, if the worldview is not also transformed, instead of embracing biblical faith, he may have only altered behavior and added Jesus to a list of gods.
After Hiebert gives an explanation of some methods of analyzing worldviews, he explores small-scale oral societies, peasant world views, the modern worldview, the worldview of late modernity (or post-modernity) and post-postmodern or Global Worldview. These chapters are outstanding and valuable for anyone working to understand their own worldview, divergent worldviews in your own culture, or who want to work cross-culturally.
Finally Hiebert described and analyzed a biblical worldview and gave steps to help people as they are transformed in their worldview, beliefs, and actions by their encounter with Jesus Christ. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to use worldview analysis in order to better understand how people think and process information in order to communicate more clearly and accurately.
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