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In relativizing its Jewish roots, Christianity thus destigmatized Gentile culture so that both Jewish and Gentile elemental dynamics became intertwined in the development of Christianity.

May the Lord comfort his family, institutions, and friends. The most salient point Sanneh makes is that vernacular Bible translation outdistanced and outlasted the ephemeral forces of colonial rule. The contrast with Islam, which does not find its identity in translation, also becomes clear once the question is posed. His last major book—Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam (OUP 2016)—had, he told me over Turkish lunch, left him intellectually and physically exhausted.

The path to an independent church was blazed through a policy of vernacular translation in Yoruba and other languages. May your gentle soul rest in perfect peace, and may God grant us all the fortitude to bear this great loss.

His Holiness, The Most Revd. Several of his books have moved discourse about Christian-Muslim relations in Africa from assumptions rooted in competition, rivalry, and conflict.

All converge into this rich repertoire of social and theological insight that enables him to assess the contemporaneity of a whole range of issues and personalities that frame the interaction of the Christian religion with the world. This perspective was ripe to be explored by someone who could see what was only obvious once the question was asked.

Lamin Sanneh for both my Licentiate and Doctorate. Since 1989 Sanneh has taught at Yale University where he holds the D. Willis James Professorship of Missions and World Christianity, as well as professorships in History and Religion. He taught at Harvard till 1989. The recipient culture thus becomes the arbiter of the appropriation of the message, not the missionaries.

This chapter, new in the second edition of Sanneh’s book, is especially helpful for English speakers to problematize what may be opaque to scrutiny, simply because it otherwise remains unconscious. Paul Balisky (PhD)

(Source: email dated 1/12/2019)

Allow me to give my heart felt condolences. An intimate grasp of the vernacular local customs and usage is absolutely necessary.

Among mainline church circles, the shadow of this censure exacted a heavy price of guilt on mission agencies. This assignment resulted in something like a second conversion in Sanneh’s life.