Includes bibliographical references.

Signs of cultural insensitivity -- Culture: a design for living - - The importance of the supra-cultural -- Biblical foundations for our response to the Gospel -- The indigenization-contextualization debate -- An evaluation of models of contextualizing theology -- The dynamics of cultural and theological syncretism -- Three models of theological syncretism in India -- The authority of the Bible in contemporary ecumenical movements -- The formation of our pre-understanding -- The overruling providence of God in the Bible's cultural conditioning -- Hermeneutical principles for understanding biblical theology -- From biblical to contextualized theology -- The Gospel is the revelation of God as Creator-Savior -- From alienation and idolatry to death and re-creation -- The universals and variables in the indigenous church -- The cross- cultural communication of the Gospel.