Organized to investigate the implications of the growing trend toward contextualization of the gospel, the "Context and Hermeneutics in the Americas Conference" was held near Cuernavaca, Mexico, in 1983. This book is a collection of papers, study group reports, and plenary discussions from that conference. It records the lively, candid, and occasionally fiery discussions that took place when a culturally and denominationally diverse group of Christian professors and pastors grappled with vital issues facing the church. Among the questions addressed at the conference were: How does a church's cultural context affect its interpretation of the Bible? What impact does this have on such basic theological concepts as Christology, soteriology, and ecclesiology? Contributors include Gerald Shepppard, George Cummings, John Howard Yoder, Orlando Costas, Stephen Reid, Robert Hubbard, David Scholer, Richard Hays, Clark Pinnock, and Samuel Pagan.