An edition of Peace child (1974)

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An edition of Peace child (1974)

Peace child

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The Sawi people of the former Netherlands New Guinea are one of an estimated four hundred tribes in the western half of New Guinea now called West Irian or Irian Jaya. In 1962, Carol and I went to live among the Sawi. In recognizing that the idealization of treachery was a part of the Sawi view of life, we understood why we felt a certain culture shock in living among them. Yet we had been sent there by God to win them, to overcome within a few short years this idealization of treachery which had been part of their way of life over centuries, possibly millenniums, of time. The key God gave us to the heart of the Sawi people was the principle of redemptive analogy -- the application to local custom of spiritual truth. As Carol and I ministered to the Sawi by means of the "peace child" and other redemptive analogies, we watched in suspense to see if the Spirit of God would actually use this means of communication for the regeneration of these cannibalistic, head-hunting people. He did! Peace Child chronicles the agony -- and the triumph -- of our attempt to probe one of the world's most violent cultures to its foundations and then to communicate meaningfully with members of that culture. - Author's introduction.

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G/L Regal Books
Language
English
Pages
287

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Peace child
2005, Regal Books
in English - 4th ed.
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Peace child
2003, Youth With A Mission Pub.
in English
Cover of: Peace child
Peace child
1974, G/L Regal Books
in English

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Table of Contents

Author's introduction
Part one : World of the Sawi. Ambassador to Haenam
Fattened with friendship
Shadow of the Tuans
The Tuans are coming
The legendmaker
Part two : When worlds meet. Genesis of a mission
Through the Ironwood Curtain
The end of an aeon
Gods from the sky
Destiny in a dugout
A baptism of strangeness
Patriarch of the Tumdu
War at my door
The Tuan eats brains
Meeting in the manhouse
Crisis by the Kronkel
Cool water tomorrow
Part three : A world transformed. Stillness in the manhouse
Capsized among crocodiles
My liver trembles
The living dead
The power of aumamay
Eyes red with watching
Out of the ancestral cocoon
Author's postscript

Edition Notes

Published in
Glendale, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
266/.023/09951
Library of Congress
BV3373.S3 R5

The Physical Object

Pagination
287 p. :
Number of pages
287

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5201983M
ISBN 10
0830704051, 0830704159, 0830702784
LCCN
75026356
Library Thing
54937
Goodreads
2911339
2986161
7077842

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