Charles Kraft's Anthropology For Christian Witness

Through chapters 17-19 in Anthropology for Christian Witness Charles Kraft covers a range of topics; Education, family, and status and role. Through these three chapters we see the importance of looking outside our own culture and our own ‘world’. In the sense that we can not safely assume that everyone else lives the same way do.
Education can be something we simply look at as “accumulating of information” but something much more. Chapter 17 in Anthropology for Christian Witness Charles Kraft breaks down the dynamic of education and biblical stance on the subject. Kraft starts with the definition of culture, and how it is to be looked at as a “learned behavior” (274 Kraft). “Every society must provide mechanisms for passing on to the young those patterns and habits considered necessary for meaningful life (including survival and whatever else a society considers appropriate) (274 Kraft). Through the text kraft wants it to be known that education is not just schooling, despite what the western world has focused on over the years. There is formal education, non formal education, informal education, and
Through chapter 18 in Anthropology for Christian Witness Charles Kraft breaks down the different aspects of families around the world. Kraft brings up how in today's western society that the standard family no longer looks like a man and women and two children but ranges from having same sax parents to haveing one parent to being raised by an aunt or uncle or someone else in the community. “Given the fragility of western missionaries have taken it upon themselves to teach that nuclear families are God’s ideal and more biblical than extended families” (293 Kraft). (Which is absolutely ridiculous) Krafts goes over the different types of families the descent and inheritances in the family, the residence of families, the authority in the family, and what the average family looks like in american