Don Richardson (1) (1935–2018)
Autor de Peace Child
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Sobre El Autor
Don Richardson, author of Peace Child, Eternity in Their Hearts and Secrets of the Koran, has been studying tribal cultures and the Muslim world for more than 30 years. He and his late wife, Carol Joy, spent 15 years among the Sawi, a tribe in Papua. Don designed an alphabet suited to the Sawi mostrar más language, authored 19 primers, taught the tribesmen to read in their native tongue, and translated the entire New Testament. Since 1977, Don has served as ambassador-at-large for World Team, a mission organization, Don holds an honorary doctorate of literature from Biola University and is an ordained pastor. He speaks at more than 40 conferences annually. mostrar menos
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Obras de Don Richardson
How Missionaries Enrich Cultures 2 copias
On the death of Chet Bitterman 2 copias
PENGUASA-PENGUASA BUMI 1 copia
Stars, Sand & Dust 1 copia
ANAK PERDAMAIAN 1 copia
Segredos do Alcorao 1 copia
KERINDUAN akan ALLAH YANG SEJATI 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1935-06-23
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2018-12-23
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Canada (birth)
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Orlando, Florida, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Irian Jaya, Indonesia
Woodland Hills, California, USA - Educación
- Prairie Bible Institute
Summer Institute of Linguistics - Ocupaciones
- missionary
- Organizaciones
- U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 17
- Miembros
- 3,955
- Popularidad
- #6,392
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 39
- ISBNs
- 92
- Idiomas
- 11
- Favorito
- 2
I love that he begins his stories with the perspective of the Sawi people, and only after the reader has gotten to know them and their culture does he introduce himself and Western influences. I really feel this helps the reader to understand the significance of the differences between cultures.
This book is somewhat graphic, and I wouldn't recommend it for young readers. I love the premise so much though, that I would most certainly consider adapting the text myself if I had young children of my own. I think the story would resonate with them greatly, and help them to comprehend the Bible more completely, as it did for even me!
Richardson is big on "redemptive analogies", which he states are "God's keys to man's cultures" (p.287), and I found the many examples he gave in the book absolutely fascinating. It was so encouraging to read how God had prepared various peoples for His Word and Truth by using their own pagan traditions and legends.
This particular book focuses on the idea of a "peace child" - a child given to an enemy tribe to prove that the giver's tribe can be trusted to keep their end of a peace agreement (instead of tricking the enemy tribe and resorting to headhunting and cannibalism).
I loved Richardson's description of a Christmas day after many Sawi became Christians:
"Then Isai, now a literate Sawi preacher, rose to his feet and read a verse of Scripture that I had translated for the occasion: 'For unto us a Child is born; unto us a Son is given...' The words sank in, and were welcomed with a perception and insight perhaps rare among western Christians. I looked around at the rapt faces of believers who were intent, not with admiration of baubles, ribbon and tinsel - for such could have no meaning to the Sawi - but with adoration of the Peace Child who had been born, not only in Bethlehem, but within their own hearts as well." (p.271)… (más)