TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Lenning,Larry Gene
TI  - The concept of blessing and its application to mission in Islamic West Africa /by Larry Gene Lenning
AV  - BV3540 .C663 1979
PY  - 1979///
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Blessing and cursing
N1  - Chapter I. Introduction; Chapter II. The Concept of Blessing in the Old Testament; Chapter III. The Concept of Blessing in the New Testament; Chapter IV. The Concept of Blessing; Chapter V. The Function of Blessing in Building Bridges to Islam in West Africa; 4.es; 1 (leaves 235.-248); Background for the Study --; Our call to witness to the Muslim world --; Primary factors affecting the Church's mission to Muslims --; Description of the Study --; The concept underlying this study --; The approach and scope of the study --; Summary; Defining the Concept --; Berakah as blessing --; Berakah as gift --; The Content of Blessing --; Fertility and prosperity --; Shalom --; Holiness --; Praise and thanksgiving --; The Source of Blessing --; Communicating Blessing --; The spoken word --; Sacred acts --; The Concept of Blessing in Cultic Perspective --; The cult as an arena of blessing --; Bestowing blessing within the cult --; Summary; Defining the Concept --; Eulogeo --; Makarizo --; The Source of Blessing --; God as the source and giver of blessing --; Jesus as the source and giver of blessing --; People as blessers --; The Content of Blessing --; Continuity of content from the Old Testament --; New Aspects of content in the New Testament --; Communicating Blessing --; The spoken word --; Sacred acts - Blessing in Liturgical Perspective --; Blessing in the environment of worship --; Blessing in the rites of the Church --; Summary; Blessing in the Foundations of Islam --; Defining the concept --; Blessing in the Qur'an --; Blessing in the life of Muhammad --; Blessing in Sufism --; Blessing in Islamic North Africa --; The veneration of saints --; Marabouts and their ministry in the religious orders --; The sultanate and its sult --; Concluding remarks --; Blessing in Islamic West Africva --; Blessing and brotherhoods in West Africa --; Blessing and the rites of passage --; Blessing and Muslim clerics --; Summary; Blessing as a Theological Bridge to Islam --; God as the source of blessing --; The blessing of Abraham --; The wholeness of blessing --; The communal characteristic of blessing --; Blessing as a Liturgical Bridge to Islam --; Blessing in the environment of worship --; Blessing in the sacraments of the Church --; Blessing in other rites of the Church --; Blessing as a Missiological Bridge to Islam --; Witness --; Dialogue --; Service --; Summary; 2; Photocopy of typescript
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