Nancy J. Thomas

A Long Walk, a Gradual Ascent

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A Long Walk, a Gradual Ascent tells the one-hundred-year story of the development of the Friends Church (INELA) among the Aymara peoples of the Bolivian Andes. It stretches from the beginnings of the INELA on the shores of Lake Titicaca around 1915 until the present time (2017), along with the story of the Oregon Friends Mission that accompanied the church for seventy-two years. Today the INELA spreads over fifteen districts with some two hundred congregations. The church is still predominately Aymara.The book considers the influence of history and culture on each phase of the church's development, exploring the complexity of planting a peace… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5326-7975-9
EAN: 9781532679759
Produktnummer: 33296783
Verlag: Wipf and Stock
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 438 S.
Masse: H25.4 cm x B17.8 cm x D2.3 cm 819 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 819

Über den Autor

Nancy Thomas, along with her husband Hal, has served among the Aymara peoples of Bolivia since 1972. Her special areas of ministry in the field were in theological education and the training of local writers. She has her PhD in intercultural studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and is a published poet (Of Deity and Bones, The Secret Colors of God, and Close to the Ground).