The Christian approach to translatability …shows… ordinary men and women as worthy bearers of the religious message.
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Lamin Sanneh: 1942-2019
One of the most important Christian thinkers and influencers in the world died yesterday. Sadly, most evangelicals in Britain will not even have heard of him.
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Lamin Sanneh on Religious Language
Because of its concern for translations that employ the speech of the common workaday world, Christian proclamation has had a populist element. In many traditional societies, religious language has tended to be confined to a small elite of professionals. In extreme cases, this language is shrouded under the forbidding sanctions of secret societies and shrines, […]
Mission is God’s work, carried out in his presence, in his power and for his glory. Our role, is to participate in what he is already doing.
Our call is to humbly serve our brothers and sisters, not simply to tell them what it is they need to know based on our own experience and history.
Our motivation and vision for mission start with the incarnate Christ, bursting upon history holding nothing back but emptying himself and eventually submitting to death on a cross.
While more and more folks in the West acknowledge the globalization of the church and give witness to the shift from the West to the Global South, too many “remain theologically provincial.”
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Bible Translation and Colonialism
It is one of the interesting ironies of the Western missionary enterprise that the evangelical motive actually helped to shield indigenous populations from the unmitigated assault of the West and that through the elevation of the vernacular in translation, missions furnished the critical language for evaluating the West in its secular and religious impact.
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Getting To Know The World Church: 2
Some suggestions for reading and places to look if you want to know more about what God is doing in the world today.
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Reflections on Bible Translation
The centre of this Good News is the creation of indigenous redeemed communities expressing the Gospel manifold cultures and all adding together to create a symphony of praise to our God.