UBS Seminar - Alternative Modernities

The last 60 years have witnessed a seismic cultural shift in both our understanding of the world and our own place as citizens of God’s good creation. To study this shift, the Nida Institute convened a seminar that looked at the various elements of this shift-- the move from modernity to postmodernity, from an age of reason to an age of imagination; from a Eurocentric world to multiculturalism, In each case, what has taken place has deconstructed all our inherited paradigms of Christian mission, practical ministry and our engagement with the Scriptures and contemporary cultures. The pertinent question for this seminar was: how does this seismic shift inform the way Bible societies and churches do Bible translation today?