Eclipse and Rediscovery of Person

Our world views form the frame of reference through which we see or interpret the meaning or significance of the events and experiences of life. Secularism is the dominant world view and ideology in the present age. Secularism has been identified as a way of life in which people live for the here and now, and consider God and the supernatural unnecessary or unreal. Science and technology are viewed as sufficient to answer all man's problems. But this thought pattern has been the cause of self-alienation and identity crisis which is widespread today. The secular world view has affected Christian thinking as well, reducing people to individuals rather than persons created in the image of God. As a result, people who were in personal communication have become a mass of people. 

In this in depth study of the crisis of dehumanization and depersonalization caused by secularization, George David gives a clarion call for a return to the concept of Biblical personhood as against the individualism of the present age. This is a must read for all those who are serious about missions as this book lays the very foundation of the theology of Christian missions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
George David was born in 1937 in a Christian family in Mumbai. But he became a practising Disciple of Christ in 1954. He is an ardent student of the Word of God, an able Bible teacher and an avid thinker who has been practising his convictions in the  mission field for over forty years. He is the author of the book Communicating Christ Among Indian People.