Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: It's a multicultural world, and it's hard to understand -- Unreached people across the street and around the world -- The Bible: it's not your book! -- Why our blind spot about honor and shame? -- The canopy of biblical truth -- Does it hurt or does it heal? -- The pathology of shame in our world -- Part 2: Hidden in plain sight - dynamics of honor and shame in the Bible -- Love of honor -- Two sources of honor -- Image of limited good -- Challenge and riposte -- Concept of face -- Body language -- Patronage -- Name/kinship/blood -- Purity -- Honor-status reversal as a motif of the Bible -- Part 3: A global gospel for our multicultural world - Love and honor -- Two sources of honor -- Image of limited good -- Challenge and riposte -- Concept of face - Body language -- Patronage -- Name/kin/kinship/blood -- Purity -- Honor-status reversal -- Part 4: Honor/shame dynamics in the world Christian movement - Honor/shame dynamics in our purpose ... in our training ... in our practice -- Summary: Believers have no honor deficit.