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| Book Review पुस्तक समीक्षा |
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Nepal and the Gospel of God |
Date:
2008-05-18 |
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Lindell, Jonathan, Nepal and the Gospel of God, Kathmandu: The United Mission to Nepal and Pilgrims Book House, 1997.
Jonathan Lindell’s book Nepal and the Gospel of God (Kathmandu: The United Mission to Nepal and Pilgrims Book House, 1997) has described the political and cultural situation in South Asia and in Nepal for the two and a half centuries before Nepal’s opening to the outside world in the early 1950s. The Capuchin Fathers travelled overland from Rome and established a presence in Kathmandu for about fifty years in the early 18th century. Then for almost two hundred years, there was no organized Christian presence in Nepal. The book has described the borders activities to preach the gospel to the Nepalese. Duncan Hospital at Raxaul was built specially to be a means to preach the gospel to the Nepalese. As Nepal opened its doors, missionary organizations representing Indian and Western Christians which had worked across the borders began to enter Nepal. One unusual group was a scientific bird identification expedition. The members were four missionaries from Sweden and America, who had been working in India in education and medical work. After a second expedition, they received an invitation from the government to build a hospital in Tansen and start clinics in the Kathmandu valley. In response to this invitation, the United Mission to Nepal (U. M. N.) was formed in 1954. The second half of this book is the story of that unusual international and interdenominational partnership with Nepalese in the development of their country. The book has given the details of the ministry of the gospel especially after 1950. This is the merit of the book. But this book is concentrated on the ministry of U. M. N. This book does not give details about the church activities and its administrations and other aspects of the church life. Likewise it does not explain the contributions and the failures of the Christian missions of Nepal.
Ps. U. J. Gurung
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