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- To people with an Innocence-Guilt paradigm, explainable, logical reasoning is such in their own minds, uncontested. They genuinely see no alternative parallel perspectives that could be equally logical, explainable, or valid.
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Apr 17, 2016 · For many Americans, especially Americans of European heritage, the Innocence-Guilt cultural paradigm is what they most readily understand, as they grew up with that general mentality, and as did generations before them.
May 1, 2016 · This is a follow-up post to Discovering the Innocence-Guilt Cultural Paradigm, Part 1a and is part of an overall discussion of the Three Colors of Worldview.
- Innocence/guilt and Honour/Shame Culture Views
- Biblical Examples
- Seeing Beyond Our Horizons
We’ll focus on the two dominating paradigms: the innocence/guilt paradigm (IG) and the honour/shame paradigm (HS). The following list will give some idea of the cultural values embedded within each and how one culture views the attitudes of the other. 1. When it comes to relationships, IG places a strong emphasis upon equality, which HS would regar...
Equality or hierarchy?
In the Old Testament, we come across an action of David’s that doesn’t make much sense to those of us high on the IG scale of equality, but which makes perfect sense to those within an HS culture of hierarchy. “David said to his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD’s anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD’s anointed. So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave a...
Direct or indirect?
Or let’s take the polarities between the direct approach of someone from an IG culture as compared to the person within the HS culture who is far more comfortable with indirect communication. Notice how Jesus responds to confrontation. “And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?—so that they might accuse him. He said to them, Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out...
Individual or group?
Or what about the contrast between our very individualistic IG culture and the more group-oriented world of the HS culture? Isaiah gives us an example of how God’s personal dealings with him were immediately translated into viewing things through corporate eyes. “And I said: Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; … ” (Isaiah 6:5 ESV) Within HS cultures, decisions are made much more slowly because of this dynamic, and the...
Now there is so much more that could be said upon this subject (somuch more!) and I may have lost some of you along the way in this article because we are looking at issues that are rarely, if ever, addressed within the context of being ready to share the good news of Jesus on a personal level. This may have opened your eyes to issues you had never...
Dec 28, 2016 · In the first part of “Applying the Innocence-Guilt Cultural Paradigm” (Part A), guilt was described as “a kind of guardrail—a fence to keep you from harming yourself and others, providing safe parameters and prevent you from disasters, small or great.”
Oct 1, 2018 · While the west predominantly shares a guilt-innocence culture, the east largely conforms to the shame-honor culture, and Africa (and parts of South America and Asia) is linked to the...
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May 18, 2023 · Innocence-Guilt–oriented leaders need to incorporate the strengths of their cultural paradigm in ways that promote the productivity and relational health of their teams. There are more or less “helpful” ways to pull Innocence-Guilt aspects into the everyday life of a workplace or educational center, and utilize them.
Sep 20, 2018 · Eugene Nida’s distinction between “shame cultures,” “fear cultures,” and “guilt cultures” has become a foundational assumption of the “global Gospel” / “honor-shame” streams of missiology.
