Did you know that the Christian faith has been re-translated and communicated across many cultures over the past two centuries? Because Christianity has no privileged culture that carries the faith, it has been the responsibility of Christians to share the gosepl of Jesus Christ and then allow other cultures to translate and communicate the gospel in a way that is true and authentic to who they are. Sometimes this process can become messy, unpredictable and dependent on the Holy Spirit because there is no guarantee that people will “get it right”. What if they screw it up, fail to say it right or communicate it in a way that makes no sense to us? What if they use different ideas, language, idioms and concepts to re-translate the gospel? Is it really possible for the gospel to move from culture to culture to culture while maintaining the unity of the faith and being true to the Jesus narrative without also carrying the language, ideas, concepts and idioms of the previous culture that “got it right”?
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:10:51 +0000
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