REVIEW | TRANSFORMING MISSION: Paradigm Shifts in the Theology of Mission Author: David J. Bosch (2011) This article intends to analyze the writings of David J. Bosch in his book entitled “TRANSFORMING MISSION Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission:” This book review shall be presented in four (4) parts. First, is an introduction and a statement of the author’s intention for writing the book; secondly, a summary shall be presented about the major insights presented in this book. Thirdly, I shall present some comments and reactions that I had about the author and his writings. Last is the concluding part where I shall present my evaluation about the book in review, as well as my own opinion and understanding of “mission” as influenced by my readings in this book? PART 1: INTRODUCTION AND AUTHOR’S INTENTION The first and foremost thing that is important to our analysis of this book is our understanding of why the book is entitled as such. What message does the book tit...
Re-Reading The Book of Ezekiel and Deutero-Isaiah Prophetic Response in the time of the Babylonian Exile Period (Mantosh Giri) 1. Introduction When we read these two books "Ezekiel and Deutero-Isaiah", sometimes it is very difficult to understand; the one causes may be it's the background. To understand any books in the bible, it's background and context is most important. Sometimes many preachers did big mistakes during delivering the word of God in churches. Without understanding the context and the proper background, hermeneutically they just delivering the word of God; so, many times the real message unable to enter into people's hearts. Though bible interpreting is a very difficult task and it takes so many times, but if we can able to understand it's context, then it will be easier for interpreting in our context. We all know that Hebrew is the original script of the Old Testament. Slowly it has translated into our own languag...
The Religion Purana Introduction In this paper, we will be looking into Puranas its origins, parts, types, and its characteristics. This paper has mainly two parts i.e., Major and Minor Puranas. However, we will not be going into detail with all the Puranas except for some few of the Puranas. This paper will give some insights of the Puranas which is also considered to be one of the most complex literature of the Hindu religion. 1. Origin of Puranas The word Purana originally means ancient or old narrative however before the beginning of the Christian era. The extensive Purana literature handed down to posterity included both early and late distinguishing major and minor work. The distinguished class name Mahapurana and it was given in comparatively in late days particularly major Puranas which commanded the highest respect of the people for their age and importance. Presently we have works of Mahapuranas which are known to us and they are Vayu, Bra...
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