Week 4, Bevans Chapter 4

As I reflected on the Translational model and what that means to translate the meaning of doctrines into into another cultural context I thought about the role of "revelation" and how it's important to remember that revelations can both be "wholly culturally free" or "clothed in a culture that is divinely sanctioned" (Bevans, p.41). The point that I'm getting at is that even though the translational model is important and we need to strip the Gospel of its husk as we enter into mission with other cultures, I think it's important to temper it with the idea that God still has the ability to reveal himself free of that culture.