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Worldview Resource Group The mission of the Worldview Resource Group is to provide cross-cultural church planting methodologies that emphasize a worldview approach to ministry.

Articles

Worldviews in collision Bob Hitching
The Role of Worldview in Missions And Multiethnic Ministry by Glenn Rogers (April 30, 2006)
Hiebert, Paul G. 1982 “The Flaw Of the Excluded Middle,” Missiology, 10:35-47.
Cognitive Categories and Our Mission Approach,” Roger Chapman.
Dierks, Friedrich. “Communication and World-View.” Missionalia 11:2 (August 1983): 43-56.
Dye, T. Wayne. ?Toward a Cross-Cultural Definition of Sin.? Missiology 4 (1): 27-41 (1976).
Hiebert, Paul G. “Conversion and Worldview Transformation.” International Journal of Frontier Missions 14:2 (April-June 1997): 83-86.
Mishioka, Yoshiyuki Billy. “Worldview Methodology in Mission Theology: A Comparison between Kraft’s and Hiebert’s Approaches.” Missiology 26:4 (October 1998): 457-76.
Priest, Robert J. ?Missionary Elenctics: Conscience and Culture.? Missiology 22 (3): 291-315 (1994).
Wallis, Andrew F. ?The Gospel as Prisoner and Liberator of Culture.? Missionalia 10 (3): 93-105 (1982).
Whiteman, Darrell L. ?Effective Communication of the Gospel Amid Cultural Diversity.? Missiology 12 (3): 275-285 (1982).

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Cross-cultural
Bhattacharya, Natun and Tom Eckblad. ?Towards a Biblical Worldview: Reflections of a South Asian and a North American.? International Journal of Frontier Missions 14 (April-June 1997): 87-90.
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Hiebert, Paul G. Anthropological Insights for Missionaries. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 1985. See especially chapter five.
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Nishioka, Billy Yoshiyuki. ?Worldview Methodology in Mission Theology: A Comparison Between Kraft?s and Hiebert?s Approaches.? Missiology 26 (1998): 457-476.
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Rogers, Glenn  The Role of Worldview in Missions and Multiethnic Ministry
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Weerstra, Hans M. ?Christian Worldview Development: Part I.? International Journal of Frontier Missions 14 (January-March 1997): 3-11.
Weerstra, Hans M. ?Christian Worldview Development: Part II.? International Journal of Frontier Missions 14 (April-June 1997): 51-62.
Weerstra, Hans M. ?Editorial: Worldview, Missions and Theology.? International Journal of Frontier Missions 14 (April-June 1997): 49.
Weerstra, Hans M. ?Editorial: Worldview, World Religion, and Missions.? International Journal of Frontier Missions 14 (January-March 1997): 1.
Weerstra, Hans M. ?Worldview, Missions and Theology.? International Journal of Frontier Missions 14, nos. 1 and 2 (1997).
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