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“I thought sharing the Gospel is only about imparting theological knowledge but that’s not it, it’s more of speaking their heart language.”
Regine Mae Besa
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Keep the conversation going around past webinars and journal articles.
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The Bible in Culture: Reading the Bible With All the World Using Ethnohermeneutics
Ethnohermeneutics is a discipline born of necessity as Caldwell’s students in the Philippines struggled to grasp the Western grammatic-historical method of Bible interpretation. This book is the result of more…
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Reading the Environment: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Communicating in Context (Part 1)
Together with around 20 experts and practitioners in orality, theological education, anthropology, and missiology, editors Danyal Qalb and Charles Madinger are developing a three-volume book series. The project explores orality…
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Transformative Storytelling Strategies
Using the story of Jacob and Laban as an example, Havilah demonstrates how engage people with Biblical stories—ultimately leading to personal transformation. She emphasized four key points that are important…
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Oral Hermeneutics?
This issue of Orality Talks Journal explores a holistic approach to hermeneutics, moving beyond the Western grammatical-historical method. Biblical interpretation originally engaged all senses, reflecting God’s communication. The articles challenge…
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Rethinking the Old Wineskins of “Academic” for the New Wine of Oral and Oral-Preference Learners
For too long, the West has dominated theological education worldwide. This reality is primarily due to the West’s past centuries of colonization of the non-Western world, which has ramifications for…
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Oral Hermeneutics in Theological Education
Oral hermeneutics provides an important framework for theological education by emphasizing the oral foundations of Scripture and their relevance in contemporary interpretation. The transmission of the Gospel began in oral…
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