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One of this book's major contributions is a comparative study of American and Korean worldview themes, leading toward a bridging of the gaps between the two cultures. Using the case of the Church of the Nazarene, it examines historical-contextual roots of both cultures and their worldviews. The book goes on to compare and contrast how the two cultures understand the concepts of space and time, self and other, relationships, and causality. The study explores the acculturation process and culminates by presenting hermeneutical tools for contextualizing the biblical concepts of holiness, conversion and ecclesiology among Korean immigrants.

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-There are few issues facing the Church in North America more serious than the assimilation of immigrant communities. Many immigrants join the Church as a means of preserving their culture, but lose their children in the transition. In-Gyeong Kim Lundell's book, 'Bridging the Gaps' is an excellent piece of research which helps us to understand the tensions of assimilation, and to bridge the chasms that divide immigrant churches.- (Paul G. Hiebert Trinity, Evangelical Divinity School.)

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The Author: In-Gyeong Kim Lundell was born and raised in Korea and has worked extensively as a pastor and church planter among Korean immigrants to America. She studied at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Southern Nazarene University, and received her Doctorate of Missiology at Fuller School of World Mission. Presently she is a missionary in Japan doing contextualization among Japanese and Koreans.

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