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This book engages with a widespread contemporary dilemma--how do we do theology in a context where the cultures of the people are oral and not literate? The nations of the South Pacific, from their missionary beginnings, inherited an approach to theology that was dominated by Western cultural categories. The global movement of contextualization began to impact upon Pacific churches in the 1960s, and challenged this inherited approach. Significant changes have resulted, but the dilemma has remained. The dominant approach is still one that is defined by and better suited to literate cultures. The consequence is that theology remains an alien enterprise, distant from the life of the local churc...
The Presbyterian witness and evangelical advocate began publication in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Saturday, January 8, 1848. It was at first connected exclusively with the Free (Presbyterian) Church, but information was not limited to this denomination.
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