Honor, Shame, and the Gospel

An Honorific Gospel: Biblically Faithful & Culturally RelevantChristians engaged in communicating the gospel navigate a challenging tension: faithfulness to Gods ancient, revealed Wordand relevance to the local, current social context. What if there was a lens or paradigm offering both? Understanding the Bibleparticularly the gospelthrough the ancient cultural language of honor-shame offers believers this double blessing.In Honor, Shame, and the Gospel, over a dozen practitioners and scholars from diverse contexts and fields add to the ongoing conversation around the theological and missiological implications of an honorific gospel. Eight illuminating case studies explore ways to make disciples in a diversity of social contextsfor example, East Asian rural, Middle Eastern refugee, African tribal, and Western secular urban.Honor, Shame, and the Gospel provides valuable resources to impact the ministry efforts of the church, locally and globally. Linked with its ancient honor-shame cultural roots, the gospel, paradoxically, is ever newoffering fresh wisdom to Christian leaders and optimism to the church for our quest to expand Christs kingdom and serve the worldwide mission of God.