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Out of a burning conviction that "God made of one blood all nations", Christians have carried their message to Aborigines throughout Australia. It is this encounter and its results that John Harris explores in these many stories that tell one story: how, in the face of abuse, paternalism, prejudice, isoluation and crippling hardship, the Christian gospel was brought to Aboriginal people. Although sometimes blind to their own faults, those who brought this message were remarkable people of great compassion and courage.For two centuries, this activity was a major force in the lives of the indigenous people of Australia. Christian missions were sometimes places of regimentation marked by a loss of freedom; often, too, they were places of survival and refuge for a suffering people. The missions may seem to have failed, yet from many of them are emerging distinctive Aboriginal churches with strong Aboriginal leadership. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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With that in mind we have to admit that Harris tale is a story of woe. Only in the final stanza does hope break through. That has been the story of the Australian Indigenous encounter with Christianity, and Harris pulls no punches. It is what it is.
Five stars. The book is marred by lazy editing: many repetitions of facts and accounts should have been spotted by the publishers but were not. These appear throughout the book - an example amongst many is the affirmation of Giese that "I only want to help you and all the other Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory" (842, repeated 848) Yet Harris' tale is so powerful and his authorial integrity so great that in the end it is his work, not the errors of his publishers, that has the final word. Still: Albatross should have done better for such a fine piece of work. ( )