Download or read book A Maasai Encounter with the Bible written by Zephania Shila Nkesela and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The research presented in this book is a critical analysis of how Maasai informants read some selected Old Testament texts that are thought to have an appeal to people with semi/nomadic ways of life. The Maasai is a Nilotic ethnic group of semi/nomadic pastoralists living in the northern Tanzania, and southern Kenya, East Africa. The book focuses on the parallels between the Maasai and biblical concepts of nomadic lifestyle. On the one hand, the semi/nomadic heritage of the Maasai faces severe cultural and political difficulties when encountering East African modern ways of life. On the other, the ancient Israel actually experienced the opposite, seeing a strengthening of semi/nomadic ways of life. Therefore, the book demonstrates the potentials of the supposed parallels between the two by allowing the experiences of the ancient Israel to contribute to strengthen the semi/nomadic ways of life, a key aspect of traditional Maasai values into the contemporary East African context"--

Download or read book Maasai Encounters with the Bible written by Knut Holter and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Maasai Encounter with the Bible written by Zephania Shila Nkesela and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of how Maasai informants read some selected Old Testament texts that are thought to have an appeal to people with semi/nomadic ways of life.

Download or read book Christianity Rediscovered written by Vincent J. Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Zablon written by Rita L. Langeland and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the author as she walks through the East African savannah tracing the fascinating life story of ZABLON, a man born into the Maasai tribe in Tanzania. Raised in a mud hut and entering manhood through the rigorous Maasai cultural traditions of circumcision and other preparations to become a warrior, Zablon's life is an amazing tale of the collision of centuries of tribal traditions and the inevitable encounters with the modern world. Zablon's life as a Maasai warrior takes a stunning turn at age 24 when he has a dramatic encounter with God. His eventual decision to dedicate his life to spreading the Gospel among his fellow tribesmen costs him everything - as the Maasai see the decision as a betrayal of their deeply held cultural values. Rejected by his family and nearly killed by his fellow warriors, Zablon begins an extraordinary walk with God filled with everyday experiences with the supernatural. Confronting the spirit of witchcraft so common in Maasai culture, his life becomes a testimony to the miraculous power of God demonstrated through a man who dares to believe His Word. Even if you have no religious inclinations at all - the spectacular stories of lion hunts and confrontations with witchdoctors will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Download or read book The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior written by Tepilit Ole Saitoti and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's traditional childhood, adolescence, and coming into manhood in Maasailand and of his education in Europe and America.

Download or read book Maasai Women and the Old Testament written by Hoyce Lyimo-Mbowe and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the popular interpretations of the Bible in Africa improving or downplaying women's status on the continent? This book analyses the reading of some biblical texts in the Maasai context.

Download or read book NIV Encountering Jesus Bible written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 2486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus Revealed Throughout the Bible Understand Jesus in a whole new way as you spend 52 weeks studying different aspects of his presence and activity throughout the Bible. As you study, you'll grow in your own walk with the living Savior, shaping your own character more into his likeness. Through 52 studies that lead you to all parts of the Bible, you'll come to discover the Jesus you never knew appearing in all parts of the Bible—present at creation, coming to earth to sacrifice himself for our sin, and living and working powerfully today in the lives of his followers. The Encounter Bible Series introduces you to the three-in-one God as each volume dives deeply into a study of each person of the Trinity: God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. As you read these devotional study notes alongside the text of the NIV Bible, you’ll begin to gain a fuller understanding of the God of the Bible. Features: • Full text of the NIV • 52 weeks of devotional readings about Jesus, including discussion questions and options for deeper study • Topical index

Download or read book Encountering God Study Bible Insights from Blackaby Ministries on Living Our Faith NKJV written by Thomas Nelson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 1897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounter God through the Scriptures as you are guided by the wisdom and experience of the Blackaby family. The deepest need of every human heart is to encounter God. To meet with God, to be changed by Him, and to become more like Him as a result. For decades, the Blackaby family has dedicated their ministry to helping believers address this deepest need. Now you can learn from their insights to experience deeper encounters with God as you develop a regular routine of Bible reading and study in the Encountering God Study Bible. The Encountering God Study Bible is the crowning work of the Blackabys. Featuring their trusted approach to Bible study, explanatory notes, word studies, biblical character sketches, historical encounters with lives of exemplary faith, articles highlighting the creative nature of God, and other articles defending the faith, you will be encouraged to see that you can encounter God in His Word—and that He wants to encounter you through it. Features include: Encounter Notes highlighting how God might choose to encounter you in His Word Articles highlighting the creative nature of God by Daniel Blackaby Articles defending the lasting truths of the faith by Mike Blackaby Rich explanatory notes explaining ideas, events, people, and places in the text to make the meaning clear Word studies, character studies, and biographical sketches of church history figures all written by members of the Blackaby family Book introductions setting the scene for each biblical book and its importance for encountering God Timeline of the biblical narrative A succinct harmony of the Gospels Chart of the prophecies fulfilled by Jesus as Messiah Reading plans Center-column reference set Full NKJV concordance Index to word studies, character studies, historical encounters, apologetic, and aesthetic articles Clear and readable NKJV Comfort Print® in a 9-point print size

Download or read book Doing Theology with the Maasai written by Doug Priest and published by William Carey Library Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maasai 052P UBS EPF 20M 1991 written by Bible Society of Kenya and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book God Speaks My Language written by Aloo Osotsi Mojola and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fascinating and important story of how God’s Word came to East Africa. Beginning with the pioneering efforts of Krapf and Rebmann, Aloo Osotsi Mojola traces the history of Bible translation in the region from 1844 to the present. He incorporates four decades of personal conversations and interviews, along with extensive research, to provide the first comprehensive account of the translations undertaken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The maps and tables included assist the reader, as does a history of the Swahili language – its standardization, role as lingua franca, and impact on the work of translation. Mojola’s writing is a tribute to those who sacrificed much in their quest to see the word of God accessible to all people, in all places – and the many who continue to sacrifice for the peoples of East Africa. This book is a key contribution to the important and ongoing narrative of how God has met us, and continues to meet us, in our own contexts and our own languages.

Download or read book Navigating African Biblical Hermeneutics written by Madipoane Masenya Ngwan’a Mphahlele and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection interrogates and engages the biblical text, colonial and postcolonial subjectivities and cultural assumptions, as well as lived experiences that encompass varying Africana contexts and Diasporas. In order to do this, it deploys methodologies, exegetical analyses and critical and constructive communal epistemologies. Framed by historical, literary, cultural and theological engagements of issues around wealth and power, gender, sexualities and masculinities, HIV and AIDS, as well as the crises of war and mass violence, the book will be very useful for students, academics, clergy and laity committed to Africana-conscious epistemologies and methodologies, and the impact on biblical studies.

Download or read book The Cosmic Christ written by Godwin Lekundayo and published by Wipf and Stock. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cosmic Christ Towards Effective Mission Among the Maasai Reception of Christ as Saviour has been poor to the Maasai people, especially in Tanzania. Missiological approaches have not proved to be practical to them. That is why the book's author proposes an Appropriational Model as an effective missiological model of conducting mission among the Maasai. Christianity has to reach Maasai where they are, in their culture and environment.

Download or read book A History of Christian Conversion written by David W. Kling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.

Download or read book Cosmic Christ written by GODWIN LEKUNDAYO and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encounters with Witchcraft written by Norman N. Miller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with Witchcraft is a personal story of a young man's fascination with African witchcraft discovered first in a trek across East Africa and the Congo. The story unfolds over four decades during the author's long residence in and many trips to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. As a field researcher he learns from villagers what it is like to live with witches, and how witches are seen through African eyes. His teachers are healers, cult leaders, witch-hunters and self-proclaimed "witches" as well as policemen, politicians and judges. A key figure is Mohammadi Lupanda, a frail village woman whose only child has died years before. In her dreams, however, she believes the little girl is not dead, but only lost in the fields. Mohammadi is discovered wandering at night, wailing and calling out for the child. Her neighbors are terror-stricken and she is quickly brought to a village trial and banished as a witch. The author is able to watch and listen to the proceedings and later investigate the deeper story. He discovers mysteries about Mohammadi that are only solved when he returns to the village three decades later. Today, witch-hunting and witchcraft-related crimes are found in more than seventy developing countries. Epidemics of violence against alleged witches, mainly women, but including elders of both genders, and even children is on the increase in some parts of the world. Witchcraft beliefs may lie behind vigilante murders, political assassinations, revenge killings and commercial murders for human body parts. Through African voices the author addresses key questions. Do witchcraft powers exist? Why does witchcraft persist? What are its historic roots? Why is witchcraft-based violence so often found within families? Does witchcraft serve as a hidden legal and political system, a mafia-like under-government? The author holds up a mirror for us to think about religious beliefs in our own experience that rely heavily on myth and superstition.