Rev. Mantosh Giri

  Dear beloved in Christ.  This article follows the development of the selected topic from the book of Amos.  Though the bible talks about 16 written prophets; these are like - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. but historically Amos is the first written prophet in the Bible. Among these prophets, Johnna didn't preach to Isreal, rather he preaches to Nineveh (present-day it's called Iraq), rests fifteen prophets preached to Isreal. There are other prophets are found in Bible, who came before Amos – the most famous prophets are Elisa & Elisaya, but they never wrote any written prophetical books. Amos was from Tekoa, which was situated to the southern kingdom ("The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa" Amos 1:1a). His occupation was farming, and  Shepherd work, he wasn't from a prophetical background ("Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a p

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 title “Trans