Today’s free book is a reprint of a series on lectures on outreach to Muslims by Bishop Jens Christiensen, the fruit of a lifetime spent in missionary work in Pakistan. This book is in copyright and has been reproduced by kind permission of AWM Pioneers. My thanks to Book Aid for providing a copy of the book for digitisation.
Bishop Christensen spent a lifetime working among Muslim Pathans in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. He was probably closer to Pathans both in their thinking and in the use of their language, Pushto, than any other westerner. I had the great privilege of working under him for seven years, and later I succeeded him. As few others he was committed to the Church of Christ and to the apostolate to Islam. His own scholarly study of Islam was profound. Nevertheless, he trusted his experience of the living Islam rather than the academic presentation of it by Western scholars. For his whole life-time he was grappling with Islam as a theological challenge to the Christian Church and its mission. He is one of the very few original thinkers in missiology since the second world war. As a person and as a theologian he was always scrupulously honest and never willing to accept an easy way out unless it was the answer to the problem. This is why Jens Christensen’s books, whether in Danish, English or Pushto, are always interesting and reward the reader. It is due to his efforts that we have a relatively rich Christian literature in Pushto, and his excellent Pushto translation of the New Testament is among the best in any language of the subcontinent.
From the Foreword by the Right Rev. Arne Rudvin, Bishop of Karachi, Pakistan
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