Living Water and Indian Bowl (Revised Edition): An Analysis of Christian Failings in Communicating Christ to Hindus, with Suggestions Towards Improvements

by Swami Dayanand Bharati

Publisher:

William Carey Library

, 2004

This is an insightful analysis based on personal experience of Christian work among Hindus and the error and inadequacy of Western Christianity in the Hindu world. Numerous anecdotes are the greatest strength of this important book. “He presents the transcultural Good News in culturally understandable ways for the India of the 21st century.” –H. Stanley Wood, Center for New Church Development, Columbia Theological Seminary

Contents

Foreword by Herbert Hoefer

Preface: To the American Revised Edition

Chapter 1- Introduction

Chapter 2- Christian Failure to Understand the Hindu Mind and Culture

Chapter 3- Specific Areas of Failure

Part A- In Our General Presentation

Part B- In Our Worship

Part C- In Our Language

Part D- In Our Theology

Part E- In Ignoring or Misusing Hindu Scriptures

Part F- In Relation to Hindu Religious Practices

Part G- In Relating to the Indian Nation

Chapter 4- Christ’s Bhaktas in Modern India

Appendix A – On the Propriety of Christian Women Wearing the Red Dot (by P. Chenchiah)

Appendix B- The Use of OM by Christ Bhaktas

Appendix C- Indianness: What is Wrong?

References Cited

Scriptural References Cited

Index of Names

Subject Index

Praise for Living Water and Indian Bowl (Revised Edition):

Swami Dayanand Bharati presents a Gospel witness in the cultural clothing of an Indian perspective.  He poignantly probes contextually relevant witness of the Good News of Christ in communication modes relevant to non-western people groups in South Asia.  He presents the transculural Good News in culturally understandable ways for the India of the 21st century and in doing so, he suggests indigenous contextualization issues for gospel witness with non-western unreached people groups.  I commend this Indian scholar's work on Christian witness and missional praxis in India today.

-H. Stanley Wood, Ph.D., Center for New Church Development, Colombia Theological Seminary

Product Details

• Title: Living Water and Indian Bowl (Revised Edition): An Analysis of Christian Failings in Communicating Christ to Hindus, with Suggestions Towards Improvements
• Author: Swami Dayanand Bharati
• Publisher: William Carey Library
• Print Publication Date: 2004
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781645085621, 9780878086115, 0878086110, 1645085627
• Resource ID: LLS:9781645085621
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-06T00:14:53Z

About the Author

Swami Dayanand Bharati has been serving Christ for the past 25 years.  As a teenager, he was drawn towards the ancient Indian ideal of sannyasa, the renunciation of normal social relations in the quest for the Eternal.  In his 20's, as a salesman for a pharmaceutical company, weariness with the ways of the world caused him to talk again about renunciation.  He decided to treat into the jungle, and a customer and friend unbeknownst to him was a follower of Christ, gave him the names and addresses of some friends of his, who were pioneers Indian missionaries working among a remote tribal people.  From that encounter, Swami began his pilgrimage to and in Christ.