The Ultimate Contextualization

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The Ultimate Contextualization

The gospel must be culturally contextualized, yet it must "gospelize" the cultural context itself. The incarnation is the ultimate event of contextualization. This means that the gospel remains a stumbling block and no contextualization can domesticate it.

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