‘A word on target’

Barry Seagren  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Feb 2013
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CONTEXTUALIZATION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
By Dean Flemming
Apollos (IVP). 344 pages. £17.99
ISBN 978 1 844 741 007

When you teach the Bible, do you just read it out in the original Hebrew or Greek? I thought not. You try to present the material in a way that both engages and challenges the particular group you are addressing. That’s contextualisation. Most of us just haven’t given it a fancy name, but neither have we given it much thought. Dean Flemming has.

Dean Flemming is a missionary teacher and pastor from a Wesleyan-Nazarene background. This book is the fruit of 30 years of work in a variety of different cultural contexts around the world. It is clearly written, well thought out and attractively printed. It is not light reading, as the Apollos imprint of IVP should warn you, but the clear focus and the constant repetition of the theme make it quite understandable.

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