Christianity Rediscovered
This profound and thought-provoking book is one of the classics of modern missionary writing. Superficially just a good missionary story, about how one man brought a number of groups of Masai people in east Africa to Christian faith, it is something much more than that. For in what the author says about the method and content of evangelism; the meaning of the eucharist; and the nature of ministry, we are led back to the question our understandings of the mission of the church in all its contexts. For Donovan, his experiences in Africa meant a total reappraisal of the meaning of his faith, and therefore a rediscovery of his Christianity. His book, which is written with moving simplicity, continues to represent a provocative challenge to all those engaged in issues of evangelism and multiculturalism.

What happens when an American missionary priest leaves behind all his old familiar structures to enter the world of the nomadic Masai people of Tanzania? That is the subject of Vincent J. Donovan's beloved classic, Christianity Rediscovered. Donovan learned what the gospel looked like, shorn of its Western packaging. In the process he discovered the creativity and humanity of the Masai people. But he also "rediscovered" the meaning of the gospel in all its radical power: a message just as relevant and urgent for Western Christians today.

This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Donovan's "epistle from the Masai" includes essays by Lamin Sanneh (Translating the Message) and Eugene Hillman (Many Paths: A Catholic Approach to Religious Pluralism) who help place the Masai people and Donovan's story in a broader historical and religious context. A moving personal reflection by Donovan's sister reveals the heart of the man himself.



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Christianity Rediscovered
This profound and thought-provoking book is one of the classics of modern missionary writing. Superficially just a good missionary story, about how one man brought a number of groups of Masai people in east Africa to Christian faith, it is something much more than that. For in what the author says about the method and content of evangelism; the meaning of the eucharist; and the nature of ministry, we are led back to the question our understandings of the mission of the church in all its contexts. For Donovan, his experiences in Africa meant a total reappraisal of the meaning of his faith, and therefore a rediscovery of his Christianity. His book, which is written with moving simplicity, continues to represent a provocative challenge to all those engaged in issues of evangelism and multiculturalism.

What happens when an American missionary priest leaves behind all his old familiar structures to enter the world of the nomadic Masai people of Tanzania? That is the subject of Vincent J. Donovan's beloved classic, Christianity Rediscovered. Donovan learned what the gospel looked like, shorn of its Western packaging. In the process he discovered the creativity and humanity of the Masai people. But he also "rediscovered" the meaning of the gospel in all its radical power: a message just as relevant and urgent for Western Christians today.

This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Donovan's "epistle from the Masai" includes essays by Lamin Sanneh (Translating the Message) and Eugene Hillman (Many Paths: A Catholic Approach to Religious Pluralism) who help place the Masai people and Donovan's story in a broader historical and religious context. A moving personal reflection by Donovan's sister reveals the heart of the man himself.



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This profound and thought-provoking book is one of the classics of modern missionary writing. Superficially just a good missionary story, about how one man brought a number of groups of Masai people in east Africa to Christian faith, it is something much more than that. For in what the author says about the method and content of evangelism; the meaning of the eucharist; and the nature of ministry, we are led back to the question our understandings of the mission of the church in all its contexts. For Donovan, his experiences in Africa meant a total reappraisal of the meaning of his faith, and therefore a rediscovery of his Christianity. His book, which is written with moving simplicity, continues to represent a provocative challenge to all those engaged in issues of evangelism and multiculturalism.

What happens when an American missionary priest leaves behind all his old familiar structures to enter the world of the nomadic Masai people of Tanzania? That is the subject of Vincent J. Donovan's beloved classic, Christianity Rediscovered. Donovan learned what the gospel looked like, shorn of its Western packaging. In the process he discovered the creativity and humanity of the Masai people. But he also "rediscovered" the meaning of the gospel in all its radical power: a message just as relevant and urgent for Western Christians today.

This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Donovan's "epistle from the Masai" includes essays by Lamin Sanneh (Translating the Message) and Eugene Hillman (Many Paths: A Catholic Approach to Religious Pluralism) who help place the Masai people and Donovan's story in a broader historical and religious context. A moving personal reflection by Donovan's sister reveals the heart of the man himself.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781570754623
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 02/26/2003
Edition description: 25th Anniversary
Pages: 169
Product dimensions: 6.32(w) x 9.24(h) x 0.45(d)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Editionix
Preface to the First Orbis Editionxi
Introduction1
1.One Hundred Years in East Africa3
2.The Masai12
3.A Time to Be Silent and a Time to Think22
4.A Time to Speak and a Time to Act32
5.What Do You Think of the Christ?50
6.The Response62
7.A Time for Laughter and a Time for Tears75
8.Churches: The New, the Young, and the Particular97
9.Signs of the Times122
10.The Winds of Change130
An African Creed148
The Author, the Brother, the Book: Three Perspectives on the Man and the Message
Vincent Donovan's Discovery of Post-Western Christianity151
Vincent Donovan as Friend and Missiologist160
A Sister Remembers Her Brother166
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