Eternity in Their Hearts:Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World
by Don Richardsonbook data
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published
May 1984
by Regal Books
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Paperback, 223 pages
isbn
0830709258
(isbn13: 9780830709250)
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Fascinating. I am very much in favor of social sciences as apologetics. I think there is a relatively untapped well of insight to be found by observing people and their ways, that points to the existence and need for a Supreme and Good God.
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Read in January, 1998
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I read this when I was much younger than now... I remember tears flowing down my face as I caught a glimpse of God's "big-ness". I have my students read this, it's mandatory.
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Read in June, 2003
God is at work through the centuries, preparing peoples and nations to know him. This book brings this out VERY clearly, a good read for anyone interested in God and history.
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Read in January, 2001
This is one of the key formational books for my outlook to how other religions should be viewed by Christians. I encourage everyone to read it.
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I'm interested in the concept. Richardson's thesis is that God has placed in various cultures a key to making the gospel understandable.
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Read in January, 2007
Interesting book about different Christian parrallels in folk religions around the world.
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Shows the many threads of the story of the kingdom of God. One of my favorite books.
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I'm currently reading this to prepare me for the missions school in Papua New Guinea. It's fascinating to read about the founding years of certain civilizations and there understanding of a hunger that lies with in them for something more. The book goes through all different people groups from the Incas,Aztecs,tribes in India/Africa. It will challenge you to get out and share what you know because there are people that are hungry for the truth.
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So far this book has been rivetting. In the past I started reading it a few times, or only read the chapter about the people groups of Northern Thailand, but this time I decided to give it a full read, and I am not disappointed- I was even reading it to Mike in the car!! Very encouraging.
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Read in January, 2006
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Title taken from Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end"
Book examines this theme that God has revealed Himself to people through creation and revelation but that people, while acknowledging God in their way, are still in need of salvation through Christ. Very interesting anthropological examples taken from world missions.
Book examines this theme that God has revealed Himself to people through creation and revelation but that people, while acknowledging God in their way, are still in need of salvation through Christ. Very interesting anthropological examples taken from world missions.
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Richardson tells stories of many native people groups that have legends and stories that are of one who will come and teach them the way, a Christ. These people have stories and legends with inroads to the gospel. He bases this study on the scripture, " He has placed eternity in their hears."
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A great book about how the message of God is has been instilled in all people, and are simply waiting on the messenger to show up. Many great accounts of how God has worked in people groups that most deem lost.
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A book I discovered in my Evangelical days. It seeks to show that the Gospel is inherent in all cultures, even headhunter and Amazonian ones. The findings are interesting, the tone is not.
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