The biblical basis for understanding culture presented in these devotionals is essential material that you will be expected to understand and on which you will be evaluated. So, the devotionals are key course content. Evaluation of this devotional is graded on a participation only basis. To receive points for the unit devotional, you must write one original post of approximately 150 words in response to your instructor\u2019s prompt. Content of the posting is not graded. However, you need to understand the material presented in the devotionals as it will often be integrated into other writing assignments.<\/em><\/p>\n During the final week of this course, we will consider more deeply our cultural lenses and how they affect the reading of Christianity\u2019s most sacred text, the Bible.<\/p>\n Dr. Allen Yeh, professor, missiologist, and author of\u00a0Majority World Theologies: Theologizing from Africa<\/a>, Asia, Latin America, and the Ends of the Earth,<\/em>\u00a0presents compelling insight regarding how different parts of the world have different theologies though we all study the same Bible. He posits that truth is God\u2019s perspective, and theology is human attempts to articulate God\u2019s truth which is inevitably filtered through our own cultural lenses and language and experiences.<\/p>\n Yeh uses the term \u201cmajority world\u201d to denote the collective name for Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He points out some things that the majority world focuses on in their theology, versus what the Western world tends to focus on.<\/p>\n Western theology often spends a lot of time discussing:<\/p>\n