The Christ of the Indian Road
Ebook
Overview
For those searching for truth and a map to help lead them down the path of The Way.
With over 1 million copies sold, this favorite from E. Stanley Jones has been translated into 30 languages!
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the book being in print, Rev. Jones’s granddaughter, Dr. Anne Mathews-Younes, along with Dr. Mathew Thattamanil Thomas, worked with contributors on this new expanded edition!
For more than one hundred years, E. Stanley Jones has led the way in evangelism by contextualizing Christ in the existing culture, wherever that may be. In The Christ of the Indian Road, he recounts his experiences in India, where he arrived as a young and presumptuous missionary who later matured into a veteran who attempted to contextualize Jesus Christ within the Indian culture. Jones names the mistakes many Christians make in trying to impose their culture on the existing culture. Instead, he makes the case that we learn from other cultures, respect the truth found there, and let Christ and the existing culture do the rest.
In his book Ordinary Man, Extraordinary Mission, Stephen Graham, a biographer of Jones, wrote:
"The Christ of the Indian Road was a frontal assault on the cultural prejudices of most European and American Christian missionaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jones was one of the first Western Christians to realize that the Christian gospel was often betrayed in Asia, Africa, and Latin America by being enmeshed with Western nations’ economic and political self-aggrandizement. In so doing, Jones declared his moral and intellectual independence from Western political and religious imperialism."
Introduced with a foreword by Leonard Sweet, this expanded edition includes essays by church leaders reflecting on the impact of Jones’s revolutionary approach to discovering the Jesus already present in each culture and what those learnings mean for the church today. Contributors include: Most Rev. Dr. Theodosius Mar Thoma Metropolitan, Dr. Sathianathan Clarke, Rev. Dr. John Thatamanil, Very Rev. Abraham O. Kadavil Corepiscopos, Rev. Dr. Shivraj Mahendra.
100th Anniversary Edition
Sold more than 1 million copies worldwide after publication in 1925
3.5 million copies of all 27 books sold; translated into 30 languages
A first-hand account of the India that E. Stanley Jones encountered a century ago. The evolution in Jones s thinking resulting from his actual experiences
The reader will come to understand that one aspect of discipleship is discovering how to use the richness of another culture to work for, not against, one’s mission. The reader will be able to make connections in his or her own life when encountering people from various cultures and value aspects of those cultures
- Title: The Christ of the Indian Road
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781791035181, 9781791035150, 1791035159, 1791035183
- Resource ID: LLS:9781791035181
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-03-17T21:21:34Z
Called "the world's greatest missionary evangelist" by Time magazine in 1938, E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) spent 70 years presenting Jesus Christ as the universal Son of Man without the trappings of Western culture. His message had a life-changing impact on the millions of people who heard him speak or read his books.