"Drawing on decades of rich field experience, focused research, and teaching, Global Arts and Christian Witness pulls together the treasures of Roberta King's life and work into one outstanding volume. While the book speaks powerfully to missionaries and artists of all kinds, I recommend it for mission pastors, students, and professors as well, as it offers a clear and compelling introduction to the importance of engaging global arts in ministry."  
\--__Robin Harris__, Center for Excellence in World Arts, Dallas International University  
  
"It has been said that music is a universal language, but its meaning is not. King has given us an in-depth analysis adding to the ethnomusicological lexicon in great detail. In a world where everyone has some type of favorite music, King's astute inquiry gives us a better glimpse into the complexity of music from around the world. Very much worth the read!"  
\--__Daniel White Hodge__, North Park University; author of Homeland Insecurity: A Hip Hop Missiology for the Post-Civil Rights Era  
  
"This inspirational book provides art makers and art appreciators with multiple ideas on how to individually and collectively spread God's fame globally. King masterfully articulates, demonstrates, and illustrates how global creative arts lead beyond fictional faith to vibrant faith through witness and worship."  
\--__Tom Steffen__, Cook School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University  
  
"In King's exciting new book, I see the culmination of a lifetime of worship, witness, scholarship, and service. King synthesizes at a deep level, integrates huge swaths of artistic and cultural tradition without oversimplifying, and contextualizes all of it in a biblical worldview that is born of her life experience. I highly recommend this book and all it offers to artists, worship leaders, and educators."  
\--__Tony Payne__, Wheaton College  
  
"The gospel message of Jesus Christ is life to all nations, bringing people to worship and to bear witness. With great care, King urges all believers to creatively employ, to their fullest extent, all music, storytelling, playback dramas, visual arts, and other artistic formats, in order to make Christ known. Globally contextualized, biblically grounded, and believer (and church) relevant, this book will convict the hearts of many missionaries, church music students, professional artists, and pastors."  
\--__Joseph Lee__, Singapore Bible College

__Roberta R. King__ (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is professor of communication and ethnomusicology in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. She previously served as a missionary and professor in Kenya for twenty years and has written several books.

__Outreach 2020 Recommended Resource of the Year (Cross-Cultural and Missional)__ Veteran missionary-scholar Roberta King draws on a lifetime of study and firsthand mission experience to show how witness through contextualized global arts can dynamically reveal Christ to all peoples. King offers the global church biblical foundations, historical pathways, theoretical frameworks, and effective practices for communicating Christ through the arts in diverse contexts. Supplemented with stories from the field, illustrations, and discussion questions, this textbook offers innovative and dynamic approaches essential for doing mission in transformative ways through the arts. It also features a full-color insert of artwork discussed in the book.

A veteran missionary-scholar offers the global church biblical foundations, historical pathways, theoretical frameworks, and effective practices for communicating Christ through the arts.

__Contents__   
Foreword by Mark Labberton  
Prelude: My Art, God's Mission? __Part 1: Foundations in Global Arts and Christ-Centered Witness__ 1. Negotiating Faith and Culture  
2. Communicating Christ through Global Arts  
__Part 2: Encountering Christ through Global Arts__ 3. Exegeting Cultures through Global Arts  
4. Translating the Message via Global Arts  
5. Theologizing with Global Arts  
__Part 3: Engaging Peoples for Christ via Global Arts__ 6. Contextualizing the Gospel in Daily Life via Global Arts  
7. Telling God's Story among Oral and Postliterate Peoples  
8. Global Arts in Peacebuilding and Interfaith Dialogue  
9. Appropriating Global Arts in Multicultural Settings  
Postlude: Revealing God's Glory and Salvation via Global Arts  
Index

King, Roberta R.

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Outreach 2020 Recommended Resource of the Year (Cross-Cultural and Missional)  
  
Veteran missionary-scholar Roberta King draws on a lifetime of study and firsthand mission experience to show how witness through contextualized global arts can dynamically reveal Christ to all peoples. King offers the global church biblical foundations, historical pathways, theoretical frameworks, and effective practices for communicating Christ through the arts in diverse contexts. Supplemented with stories from the field, illustrations, and discussion questions, this textbook offers innovative and dynamic approaches essential for doing mission in transformative ways through the arts. It also features a full-color insert of artwork discussed in the book.

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Veteran missionary-scholar Roberta King offers the global church biblical foundations, historical pathways, theoretical frameworks, and effective practices for communicating Christ through the arts

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