Making Disciples Among Oral Societies
by Romerlito Macalinao
Foreword by Cameron Armstrong
While UNESCO heralds “Literacy Rates Continue to Rise from One Generation to the Next” (Fact Sheet No. 45 September 2017), there remains in the world a preference for nonliterate means of information processing and communication. Such people belong to oral societies that exist both in highly urban centers to the remotest islands and jungles of the world. These people are able to read but prefer to acquire, process, and communicate information by listening and/or watching. On the other hand, there are people who are unable to read and do not see the need to learn how to read, but still go about with life and continue to thrive since their earliest ancestors for centuries. In this global context, how is Jesus’ command to make disciples of all nations to be accomplished? While the field of Orality Missiology has been in existence for several decades with significant milestones in the work of missions and education, the pairing of Orality with neuroscience is a trailblazing and emerging field of inquiry and a fertile seedbed among innovators in theological education and strategists in Bible translation and the wider work of evangelization. This book will illustrate firsthand experiences on how the field of orality and neuroscience provide a critical pedagogy in advancing the Great Commission among oral societies.
