MESSAGE AND MISSION: The Communication of the Christian Faith

by Eugene A. Nida ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 26, 1960

Years of association with the American Bible Society have placed Eugene Nida in a position to know the problem of communication in a most intensive form, and his book reflects both his wide experience and his mellowed meditation on the subject. Just in translation alone the task is great enough, for the Bible has outlived all its original languages, and to be understood by the people it must pass from one tongue to another. But the Bible is not the whole Christian faith, either. The problem is to get that whole faith, unimpaired and undistorted, from one century to another, from one culture to another, through various social structures, ever colored by the personality and status of the man who imparts and the man who receives that faith, and yet ever mindful that the faithful transmission of that faith is a life and death matter for each person and for the whole world. One happy fact about Eugene Nida is that he not only delineates these problems, but he suggests some practical working answers, and concludes the whole effort with a remarkable chapter.-""The Theological Basis of Communication"". All through the book he solves his own problem of communication with anecdotes and illustrations drawn from his own and others' experience in the worldwide work of the Bible Society. This book has been written for the religious field and preachers and teachers will praise it, while laymen interested in the Bible's outreach will be fascinated by the story of difficulties overcome. However, the analysis of the problem of communication is so complete and understandable, that the volume is worth the time and attention of anyone in a communications field.

Pub Date: Oct. 26, 1960

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Publisher: Harper

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1960

Categories: NONFICTION