The impact of scriptures on communities – The African experience

Muthwii, Margaret Jepkirui

The impact of scriptures on communities – The African experience

dc.contributor.author	Muthwii, Margaret Jepkirui
dc.date.accessioned	2024-03-15T16:15:36Z
dc.date.available	2016-08-01T10:31:03Z
dc.date.available	2024-03-15T16:15:36Z
dc.date.issued	2015-04-08
dc.description	Full article	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This paper on the impact of Scriptures on African communities draws most of its examples and reflection mainly from the Eastern Africa experience. It is written in honour of Dr. Kees de Blois and his wife Janneke for their many years of dedicated service to the Lord in Africa. In all their life in the Bible translation enterprise they have lived for one thing—to see Scriptures translated into the languages of the peoples of the world. Their success and the success of this enterprise “must not be judged only by the number of languages translated into or by the number of copies of New Testaments and Bibles that have been distributed. For the translator [like Kees], it is the role of the translated Scriptures in the life of the Christian that must be taken as the measure of its impact” (Noss 2004:21). This paper, therefore, explores the impact of the Scriptures in the Christian church birthed in Africa in the 19th, 20th and in the present century.
dc.description.sponsorship	PAC University	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-84364-209-1
dc.identifier.uri	https://repo.pacuniversity.ac.ke/handle/123456789/807.2
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	United bible societies	en_US
dc.subject	Scripture	en_US
dc.subject	culture	en_US
dc.subject	education	en_US
dc.subject	preaching	en_US
dc.subject	Bible translation	en_US
dc.subject	ethnic conflicts	en_US
dc.title	The impact of scriptures on communities – The African experience	en_US
dc.type	Book chapter	en_US