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Paperback Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture (Revised, Expanded) Book

ISBN: 1570758042

ISBN13: 9781570758041

Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture (Revised, Expanded)

(Part of the American Society of Missiology Series)

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Since its original publication Translating the Message has transformed common perceptions of mission, showing how the process of "translation" has made Christianity a preserver, rather than a destroyer of indigenous languages and cultures.

This thoroughly revised edition, drawing on the latest scholarship, refocuses the original thesis and adds illustrations and new tables of translation.


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Receiving (the message) is better than giving

"Translating the Message" may be the best book on missions to be published in years. Many reviewers have focused upon this book as a defense of the Christian mission enterprise. This is, however, an incorrect assessment of a deep investigation into the reception of the gospel message. Sanneh demonstrates that it is not the transmission of the message that is central, but the local acceptance and adaption of the good news in local languages and categories of interpretation. In the course of his argument he also shows that the gospel cannot be otherwise, for it is the nature of grace to translate the message into local thought forms and thus be transformed by these local categories. "Translating the Message" is essential reading for all who are interested in the advent of non-Western Christianity.
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