Download or read book Hermeneutical Community written by C. S. Barefoot and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-12-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.