Acclaimed as a classic examination of faith and culture this book illuminates the various meanings of "contextualization."

Stephen Bevans brings order to the discussion of "contextualization" by classifying its basic uses as models. In this revised expanded edition a new "countercultural," "Praxis." "Synthetic," and "Transcendental."
"Stephen Bevans has done us a great service in proposing a way to think more clearly about the interaction of the Gospel message and culture, and about honoring tradition while responding to social change." -Robert J. Schrieter, c.pp.s. from the foreword of Models of Contextual Theologies

"Writing out of his international theological background and his experience as an educator in several countries, Bevans has produced a valuable guide to that inescapable aspect of all theology: cultural context. Readable chapters, with concrete examples and sharp cultural allusions, survey the topic and then explain, through models both theological and practical, those basic approaches making the Gospel attractive for a wider world and for a world church. Useful for a range of theological audiences." -Thomas O'Meara William K. Warren Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame