The Pedagogy of Evangelism: Moving from a Didactic to a Conversational Model of Evangelism

This paper argues that while evangelicalism has sought to maintain the importance of communicating a normative understanding of faith, it has done so primarily through a didactic understanding of evangelism. This has made it difficult to integrate informal and non-verbal expressions into an account...

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主要作者: Butler, James (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Brill 2022
In: Mission studies
Year: 2022, 卷: 39, 发布: 1, Pages: 95-116
Further subjects:B didactic
B Evangelism
B the four voices of theology
B Conversation
B Evangelicalism
B Theological Action Research
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总结:This paper argues that while evangelicalism has sought to maintain the importance of communicating a normative understanding of faith, it has done so primarily through a didactic understanding of evangelism. This has made it difficult to integrate informal and non-verbal expressions into an account of evangelism and, I argue, has contributed to evangelicalism’s problems of understanding the relationship between evangelism and social action. By turning to lived experience, and the ‘theology in four voices’ framework from theological action research, I suggest a conversational model of evangelism which enables a move away from a didactic model without losing a commitment to communicating a normative understanding of Christian faith. This model relates more clearly to the lived experience of participants in my research and enables a more integrated understanding of evangelism, which places greater value on the ordinary and everyday expression of faith.
ISSN:1573-3831
Contains:Enthalten in: Mission studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341831