Grasping contextualization through the New Testament pattern of ‘death and resurrection’, invigorates the conversation between missiology and systematic theology and affords numerous conceptual benefits. By employing N.T. Wright’s rendition of the Apostle Paul’s life-transformation as ‘dying and rising with Christ’, a pattern suggests itself that accounts for both continuity and discontinuity between Paul’s former life and his life ‘in Christ’. When this pattern informs theological reflection on contextualization, its shape and significance can be better appreciated and named. This is demonstrated with reference to three systematic loci. First, Christology: the widespread incarnational model for understanding contextualization is expanded to include Christ’s death and resurrection. Second, soteriology: the death and resurrection pattern llumines conversion as both a point and a process. Third, eschatology: this same pattern sheds light on contextualization’s final significance for humanity’s life in the new creation.

通过新约“死亡和复活”的模式来把握语境，激发了宣教学和系统神学之间的对话，并提供了许多概念上的好处。通过使用 NT Wright 对使徒保罗生命转变的演绎，即“与基督一同死去并复活”，一个模式本身就说明了保罗以前的生活和他“在基督里”的生活之间的连续性和不连续性。当这种模式引导神学对语境化的反思时，它的形状和意义就可以更好地被理解和命名。参考三​​个系统基因座证明了这一点. 首先，基督论：理解语境化的普遍化身模型被扩展为包括基督的死和复活。第二，救赎论：死亡和复活的模式将皈依作为一个点和一个过程。第三，末世论：同样的模式揭示了语境化对人类在新创造中生活的最终意义。