Translanguaging: Leveraging Multilingualism for Scripture Engagement Bible TranslationLanguage Issues

Translanguaging: Leveraging Multilingualism for Scripture Engagement

Translanguaging as both a theoretical and andragogical lens respects established language-use preferences of end users and seeks to create engagement opportunities that correspond most naturally to a community's current language-use patterns. Use of Scripture should mirror language-use patterns observed elsewhere…
Richard
August 9, 2022
Translating the Bible into Action Translating the Bible into Action (2nd edition)AdvocacyBible PreachingBible ReadingBible StorytellingBible StudyBible TranslationChildrenCultureDigitalDramaLanguage IssuesLiteracyMarketing and DistributionMeditation and PrayerMemorising ScriptureMusic and WorshipTrauma HealingVisual Arts

Translating the Bible into Action

Second Edition (2022) When Jesus was born to Mary, God “translated” himself into our human world. This act of God’s translation continues today wherever the gospel is expressed, in each language and lived out in each culture that makes up…
Richard
June 18, 2022
God and Language God and LanguageLanguage IssuesOrality

God and Language

From the book description: What is language? “Language is more than syntax and morphology; it is the vehicle for assuming the weight of a culture,” writes John Pobee, quoted in Michel Kenmogne’s Foreword to this volume. More than that: language…
Richard
April 21, 2022
Analysis of the reception and appropriation of the Bible by Manobo Christians in Central Mindanao, Philippines CultureResearch

Analysis of the reception and appropriation of the Bible by Manobo Christians in Central Mindanao, Philippines

Summary of thesis: The purpose of this thesis is to examine how Christians, within a minority people in the southern Philippines, view the Bible conceptually as a source of spiritual authority and also how they read and interpret the Bible,…
Richard
March 9, 2022