Seeking the Unseen: Spiritual Realities in the Buddhist World

by Paul H. De Neui (Editor)

Overview

Spiritual Realities in the Buddhist World

Buddhism claims no god, yet spiritual realities abound in popular practice. What are these realities? What do they mean to the practitioners? How can understanding these realities inform Christ-followers seeking to communicate the good news of Jesus in ways that all can understand and relate to? In answer to these and other questions, SEANET proudly presents its twelfth volume, Seeking the Unseen: Spiritual Realities in the Buddhist World.

Christian practitioners from thirteen different Buddhist cultures share insights gained from their wide-ranging experiences and perspectives. From Sri Lanka to Japan, from China to the Philippines, these women and men, Asian and Western, present on a topic that is often missing in mission literature today. And for readers seeking personal insight into the growing spiritual complexities of their own place in the postmodern world, lessons from these authors will guide you with practical principles from engaging, firsthand cultural encounters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878089383
Publisher:	Carey, William Library Publishers
Publication date:	03/15/2016
Series:	SEANET Series , #12
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	340
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Paul H. de Neui is an ordained minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church. He and his wife served as missionaries with church planting and community development organizations in northeast Thailand from 1987–2005. He completed his PhD in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Paul has been involved in SEANET for many years, dedicated to seeing the writings of emerging non-Western and other practitioners in print for the benefit of the global church. Presently he is the professor of missiology and intercultural studies and the director of the Center for World Christian Studies at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL.

Paul H. De Neui is an ordained minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church. He and his wife served as missionaries with church planting and community development organizations in northeast Thailand from 1987–2005. He completed his PhD in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Paul has been involved in SEANET for many years, dedicated to seeing the writings of emerging non-Western and other practitioners in print for the benefit of the global church. Presently he is the professor of missiology and intercultural studies and the director of the Center for World Christian Studies at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL.

Table of Contents

Introduction 

Contributors

Part I: Biblical Framework

1. Moving beyond Warfare: Biblical Imagery and

the Conduct of Mission 

Dwight P. Baker

2. Spiritual Realities in the Gospels and Implications for

Discipleship among Oral Learners in Northeast Thailand 

Mark Caldwell

3. Buddhist Spiritual Realities: Divining and Discerning the Future 

Alex G. Smith

4. Transforming Power Encounters into People Movements

in the Buddhist World and Beyond 

David S. Lim

Part II: Cultural Practices

5. How Buddhist Spirituality Influences and Shapes

Asian Cultural Practices: Missiological Implications 

Sheryl Takagi Silzer

6. The Impact of Buddhism on Ancestor Veneration

in Vietnam: Harmless Cross-Cultural Assimilation

or Dark Spiritual Influence? 

Tin Nguyen

7. “I Believe for 50%”: Negotiating Spiritual and Scientific

Realities in Contemporary Thai Cosmologies 

Daniëlle Koning

8. Rituals for Blessing and Destruction among

the Rgyalrongwa of Sichuan, China 

David Burnett

9. An Evangelical Christian Analysis of Theravada Buddhist

Spirituality Expressed in the Almsgiving Ceremony 

G. P. V. Somaratna

Part III: Mission Strategy

10. A Post-3/11 Paradigm for Mission in Japan 

Hiroko Yoshimoto, Simon Cozens, Mitsuo Fukuda,

Yuji Hara, Atsuko Tateishi, Ken Kanakogi, Toru Watanabe

11. Spiritual Realities in the Folk Buddhist Worldview

of Sri Lanka 

Ravin Caldera

12. Signs and Wonders: Necessary but Not Sufficient 

Alan R. Johnson

13. Christian Response to Burmese Nat Worship in Myanmar 

Peter Thein Nyunt

14. People of Power: Becoming an “Alongsider” in

Thailand and Beyond 

John P. Lambert

Index 

Scripture Index

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