In the past 20 years, Christians around the world have launched initiatives to reach Muslims, Communists, Hindus and other major unreached people groups but the Buddhist world has largely been overlooked. Hundreds of millions of Buddhists continue to live and die without any exposure to the Gospel. In Peoples of the Buddhist World, researcher and author Paul Hattaway graphically presents prayer profiles of more than 200 Buddhist people groups around the world, beautifully illustrated with color pictures throughout. In addition, experts have contributed articles on various aspects of Buddhism, helping the reader to learn, pray and work until that day when "the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he will reign for ever and ever" (Rev. 11:15).
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Paul Hattaway is the director of Asia Harvest, an interdenominational ministry committed to serving the church throughout Asia. He is the author of Operation China, The Heavenly Man and Back to Jerusalem.
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Helping Unethical Coversion to Christianity,
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I read following critique by Allen Carr about this book. This is all about unethical conversion to Christianity.[...] Excerpt from the critique: "Hattaway claims that Buddhists, like other non-Christians, are leading empty meaningless lives and are actually just waiting to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not surprisingly, the statistics he presents to his readers do not always bare this out. He shows that some Buddhist groups have been subjected to quite intense evangelization for years and yet have chosen to keep their faith. For example 32% of Kyerung of Nepal have heard the Gospel but 'few have understood the heart of the message.' Hattaway tells us that 'the American Baptists worked in the Tovyan area (of Burma) for many decades, but most of the converts they made were among the Karen people. They found the Tovyan people 'slow to respond to the gospel - a pattern that continues to this day.' Dedicated and self-sacrificing missionaries have labored in Thailand for over 140 years but have made only miniscule numbers of converts. According to Hattaway there are 2000 foreign missionaries operating in Chiangmai - more than the actual number of Christians in the city."
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Wolves in Sheep's Clothing,
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This is not a book about helping Christians to understand Buddhism, it is a reductionist perspective of Buddhism for the exclusive purpose of "converting" Buddhists to Christianity. The track record of Christian missionaries in Buddhist areas of the world throughout history has been awful, not to mention a near perfect failure. For this reason, a new angle is being taken by Hattaway, a "know thy enemy" approach. The purpose of teaching people about the different forms of Buddhism then (from his point of view), is not done for the sake of truly understanding others, but for the agenda to understand the unique forms for the purpose of more skillful manipulation (how to convert a Thai Buddhist versus a Tibetan Buddhist). Hattaway's approach represents a fraudulent way to meet people in the first place, regardless of one's spiritual heritage. The rationalization for this evangelizing behavior is based on the notion that--since Buddhists are going to hell given their current life--all bets are off regarding the common values of forthright honesty and genuineness. In any relationship, when the goal of one person is to "change" another person, especially when it is done without their knowledge, the relationship is based on manipulation and deceit."Peoples of the Buddhist World: A Christian Prayer Guide" represents this type of shallow ethic...instead of being based on a respectful inquiry of Buddhism, it is based on the overt desire to eliminate Buddhism from the planet. Wasn't it Jesus who said something clever about the consequence of building one's house on a poor foundation? At least the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door are honest about what they are doing. They did not run a background check on me to find out how to get into my good graces beforehand without me knowing it.
16 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Is this religious co-existance ?,
By dahasak mal (Dover, DE United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Peoples of the Buddhist World: A Christian Prayer Guide (Paperback)
I find this book is vile.Its written as a guide-book for the religious hunter. A hunter who can prey on individuals of other faiths. I myself know of various groups, fundamentalists acting in many third world countries under many disguises. They use poverty or a civil unrest as a necessary pre-condition to act-upon innocent victims. And for those groups operating in such conditions, environments, this book may be a God sent.
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