[PDF] Paths Of Mission In India Today eBook

Author : Augustine Kanjamala SVD
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 163087485X

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Colonial missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, arrived in India with the grandiose vision of converting the pagans because, like St. Peter (Acts 4:12) and most of the church fathers, they honestly believed that there is no salvation outside the church (extra ecclesiam nulla salus). At the end of the "great Protestant century," however, Christians made up less than 3 percent of the population in India, and the hope of the missionary was nearly shattered. But if one looks at mission in India qualitatively rather than quantitatively, one sees a number of positive outcomes. Missionaries in India, particularly Protestant missionaries espousing the social gospel, in collaboration with a few British evangelical administrators, dared to challenge numerous social evils and even began to eradicate them. The scientific and liberal English education began to enlighten and transform the Indian mindset. Converts belonging to the upper caste, although small in number, laid the foundation stone of Indian theology and an inculturated church using Indian genius. The end of colonialism in India coincided with the painful death of colonial mission theology. Now, the power of the Word of God, extricated from political power, is slowly and peacefully gaining ground, like the mustard seed of the parable. A paradigm shift from the ecclesio-centric mission to missio Dei offers reason for further optimism. In short, the future of mission in India is as bright as the kingdom of God. In today's new context, theologians, despite objections from some quarters, are struggling to discover the Asian face of Jesus, disfigured by the Greco-Roman Church. And the missionary is challenged to become a living Bible that, undoubtedly, everyone will read.

Author : Margaret Ernestine Burton
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Missions
ISBN :

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"The Christian missionary movement is a living thing; one of the most conspicuous and convincing evidences of the vitality of the Christian religion. This book seeks to point out some of the new and inescapable demands which are today being made upon it in this and other countries."--Foreword

Author : Herbert E. Hoefer
Publisher : William Carey Library
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878084449

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The purpose of this book is to describe a fact and reflect upon it theologically. The fact is, there are thousands of people who believe solely in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior but who have no plans to be baptized or to join the local church. Churchless Christianity is based on research from the early 1980s among non-baptized believers in Christ in Tamil Nadu, India. This revised edition includes all the original text plus five additional chapters and a new foreword.

Author : Michael W. Goheen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830895434

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Michael Goheen gives us a full-scale introduction to mission studies today in its biblical, theological and historical dimensions. Goheen covers the full horizon of major issues in mission, including its global, urban and holistic contexts. This text shows how the missional church encounters the pluralism of Western culture and global religions.

Author : F. Hrangkhuma
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Christianity
ISBN :

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The Book Examines The Context, The Church And The Challenges To Mission In 21St Century In India. Condition Good.