Week 5 - Bevans, Chapter 5

In this chapter, Bevans develops the anthropological model. In many ways it could be described as the opposite of the translation model. Here, instead of bringing a meta-cultural gospel to the culture he seeks to minister to, the theologian engages in a conversation with people from the culture, sharing theology, concepts and ideas and seeing how people from the culture appropriate these things and make them their own.
By doing this, a “new” form of Christianity grows from within the culture. While the translation is more focused on the content and the message itself, the anthropological model is more concerned with the culture.