Telling God's Stories with Power: Biblical Storytelling in Oral Cultures
Ebook
This is a complete and practical introduction to storying, especially for people who want to learn about using biblical storytelling in cross-cultural contexts and who want to train others to become storytellers. It includes many fascinating accounts of the responses of tribal people to the first proclamation of the gospel through storytelling. The result of years of research and field testing, Telling God's Stories with Power is a product of the author's own journey as he confronted the challenges of teaching the Bible in parts of the world where people are unaccustomed to a Western style of learning. Full of innovative and groundbreaking insights, this study is packed with ideas, explanations, and constructive suggestions stated in clear and simple language. Throughout the book there are extensive examples from the storytellers' own experiences. Tracing the movement of the biblical stories across multiple generations of tellers and listeners, storytelling is found to be superior for knowledge transfer and for bypassing resistance to the gospel in oral contexts, thus presenting clear evidence of the effectiveness of biblical narrative among oral learners.
Readers interested in orality and church planting movements will find this volume extremely helpful. Tom Steffen, professor of Intercultural Studies, Biola University
For those working with primary oral learners this book is a must read! Avery T. Willis, Jr., executive director, International Orality Network
I wish this book had been available when I was living and working among a non-literate people in Nigeria. Charles H. Kraft, senior professor of Anthropology and Intercultural Communication in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary
This book describes the extraordinary energy unleashed by teaching oral culture people to tell the stories of the Bible by heart to their family and friends in their villages. Thomas E. Boomershine, PhD, founder of the Network of Biblical Storytellers
- Title: Telling God's Stories with Power: Biblical Storytelling in Oral Cultures
- Author: Paul F. Koehler
- Publisher: William Carey Library
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780878080656, 9780878084654, 0878084657, 0878080651
- Resource ID: LLS:9780878080656
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-09-08T19:36:38Z