Contextualizing the Gospel among the Saxons: An Example from the Ninth Century of the Cultural Adaptation of the Gospel as Found in The Heliand
Douglas G. Hayward
In the middle of ninth century, Christian missionaries among Germans propagated gospel by singing story life Christ in meadhalls Saxon warrior-nobles. This article, based upon a new translation and interpretation that song-text (The Heliand) G. Ronald Murphy, SJ, examines manner which those sought to adapt witness Jesus times people. author identifies three primary concerns contextualizaiton every age, shows how these were addressed more than one thousand years ago.
Missiology