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Brother Bakht Singh : Theologian and Father of the Indian Independent Christian Church Movement - B. E. Bharathi Nuthalapati

Brother Bakht Singh

Theologian and Father of the Indian Independent Christian Church Movement

By: B. E. Bharathi Nuthalapati

Paperback | 14 March 2017

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Brother Bakht Singh Chabra, a Sikh convert, was one of the foremost evangelists and Bible teachers in India. Bakht Singh was well known as a pioneer in gospel contextualization and a proponent of indigenous Indian churches. The movement and assemblies he established were often viewed as splinter groups from mainstream churches and many considered his teachings and theology as negatively syncretic. In this publication, Dr Bharathi Nuthalapati establishes that Bakht Singh’s theology was rooted in the Indian spirituality of experience through personal relationship and devotion to God or Bhakti. Brother Singh Christianized Bhakti and in his hands Bhakti became a Christian idiom. The author also analyzes how pre-Christian, Sikh elements persisted in Bakht Singh’s movement while remaining theologically orthodox, as well as how various aspects of Indian religiosity and biblical and western Christianity were adopted, rejected, reinterpreted, or revolutionized in his movement.

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This is one of the more important books to appear in recent years, lling in a gap in the contemporary accounting of India’s newer, indigenous churches. It should be read by theologians, missionaries, and seminary students alike.



Professor Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. PhD



Fuller Theological Seminary, California, USA



 



For all those interested in deepening their knowledge of the varieties of religious experience in the wonder that is India, and for those concerned about indigenous ways in which the Christian faith has been fostered in interaction with inter- and intra-faith realities, this book o ers much sustenance to accompany this journey, and I warmly recommend it to practitioners and researchers alike.



Rev J. Jayakiran Sebastian, DTh



Lutheran Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania, USA 

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