Hermeneutical Community - Paperback

by C. S. Barefoot (Author)

Many Western initiatives exist for theological development in the majority world, but how often do practitioners from the West pause to examine the role they should play in that endeavor? Missions history and church history have revealed inadequacies of imposing foreign theology on local churches, yet the alternative of withdrawing from local theological development appears equally problematic. If, therefore, the outsider's role is neither to impose theology nor withdraw from the task, then what is his or her role? Hermeneutical Community addresses this fundamental question and seeks to lay a sound missiological foundation for local theological development.

Author Biography

C. S. Barefoot holds a PhD from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a theological education strategist and church planter with the International Mission Board. He has served as a cross-cultural missionary for nearly a decade.