Harvesting Our Souls

Harvesting Our Souls : Missionaries, Their Design, Their Claims.
A book that shows up the claims of missionaries, that nails their design, that bares their technology and sets out what should be done.

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Harvesting Our Souls

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Harvesting Our Souls : Missionaries, Their Design, Their Claims


By Arun Shourie

A book that shows up the claims of missionaries, that nails their design, that bares their technology and sets out what should be done.

How come our secularists insist that conversion is not the aim of the Church when the Church repeatedly and explicitly declares that the singular aim of all its activities is to convert non-Christians to Christianity, and thereby harvest souls for Jesus? In Ecelesia on Asia released in Delhi in November 1999, Pope John Paul declares:

Just as in the first millennium, the Cross was planted on the soil of Europe, and in the second on that of the Americas and Africa, we can pray that in the third Christian millennium a great harvest of faith will be reaped in this vast and vital continent. He fervently endorsed the call of his Bishops, the heart of the Church in Asia will be restless until the whole of Asia finds its rest in the peace of Christ, the Risen Lord

How does the Church pursue this goal in the face of the Supreme Court's emphatic verdict that the freedom to propagate does not include freedom to convert, that conversion is in fact an assault on the freedom of conscience that our Constitution guarantees to the persons the proselytizers target?

How do the claims of missionaries - that Jesus was the Son of God, that he was born to a virgin at the intercession of God, that he was crucified - stand in the face of the emphatic declaration in that other scripture which is also said to have been sent down directly by God, the Quran, that to ascribe a Son to God is to blaspheme God?

About the Author : Arun Shourie, among India?s best known commentators on current and political affairs, backs his distinctive writing, his conscientiously independent perspectrive with rigorous analysis and meticulous research. Born in Jalandhar in 1941, he studied at Modern School and St. Stephen?s College in Delhi, and obtained his doctorate in Economics from the University of Syracuse, USA. He has been an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission and Editor of The Indian Express. His writings have gained him a vast following across the country, as well as several national and international honours. Among these are the Padma Bhushan, the Magsaysay Award, the Dadabhai Naoroji Award, the Astor Award, the K.S. Hegde Award and the International Editor of the Year Award. The Federation of Indian Publishers recently conferred The Freedom to Publish Award on him. At present Arun Shourie is a member of the Rajya Sabha.

He has been an economist with the World Bank and a consultant to the Planning Commission, and Editor of the Indian Express. His writings have gained him a vast following across the country, as well as several national and international honors.


To mark its 50th year, The International Press Institute has acclaimed fifty persons as Heroes of World Press freedom - as persons whose work has made a difference for the press across the World in the last half century, Arun Shourie is one of them.

Author: Arun Shourie

ISBN: 8129107848

Size: 21.5cm X 13.9cm

Pages: 432

Price: Rs.295/-

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