The Future of Christian Mission in India
Toward a New Paradigm for the Third Millennium
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-63087-485-8
- EAN: 9781630874858
- Produktnummer: 30238743
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 422 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'316 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 4
Über den Autor
Born in Kerala, South India, in 1939, Augustine Kanjamala, SVD, entered the Divine Word Seminary at the age of seventeen. He was ordained a priest in October 1970 and worked for three years among the tribal Catholics of Orissa in eastern India. He taught mission theology in major Indian seminaries and was a scholar in residence at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, in 1986. He is the author of Religion and Modernization of India (1981) as well as numerous articles. The Future of Christian Mission in India is the fruit of forty years of research, teaching, and publications.
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