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SAIACS PRESS CATALOGUE

SAIACS Press offers two series that are geared towards different audiences. SAIACS Press publishes the Dome Series and the Spire Series. Dome Series publications are scholarly works. Spire Series books are more popular guides to Christian thought and living.

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SPIRE SERIES

The Lost Art of Meditation: Deepening your prayer life, Sheila Pritchard, Spire Series, Rs. 95.00. Sample chapter (pdf)

Do you ever wonder if there is more to prayer than you have so far discovered... if you long to explore creative, two-way communication with the amazing God of the universe... If you have a desire to plumb the depths and enough holy daring to experiment... Then this books is for you.

Footprints in Water: Searching for God in suffering, Sunny Philip, 2005. Spire Series, Rs. 98.00. Sample pages (pdf)

This is a book to explore the questions raised by suffering. Sunny immerses himself in the reality of hurting people, and helps them and those they meet to come through the experiences with poise and faith in a loving God. This book is for pastors, counsellors and people who go through the pain experience.

Women, Worth & Scripture: What does the Bible really say? Lynn Smith, 2005, Spire Series, Rs. 75.00 . Sample pages (pdf)

This book is intended to bless women and men with a biblical understanding of the gifts and work of women in church and society, and enlarge the work of the Lord God in the world by welcoming the talents and gifts of women. Designed as a bible exploration, this book can be read individually or within a group study.

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Welcoming the Gospel in Jharkhand: The Malto Story. George Edward, viii,123pp. 2003, Rs 80-00 pb.

Focussing upon the changes that the Gospel made among the Maltos.

Bridges Across Cultures :Approaches with the gospel to Brahma Kumaris, Lingayats and Maltos. Achenkunju Pappy, George Edward, John Philip, viii,140pp. 2003, Rs 80-00.pb.

Insights into Openness: Encouraging Urban Mission. Atul Y.Aghamkar, viii, 176pp. 2000, Rs 100-00.pb.

This book finds that missionary efforts produced a Hindu revival. In the present tensions related to Christian efforts to demolish the caste system and instigate reforms, Christianity is perceived as a threat. This book explores ways in which churches grapple with communicating the gospel in a seemingly hostile urban context.

The Presbyterian Church of Mizoram's Amazing Mizo Missions. S. Nengzakup, x,102pp, Second edition, 2000, Rs 70-00 .pb.

Outstriping the commonplace, Mizo missions have become remarkably generous, versatile, creative and vital. How did they do it? The story of the commitment to and support of mission by the Presbyterian Church of Mizoram is inspiring.

Which Way Forward Indian Missions? A critique of twenty-five years 1972-1997, 264pp, 1998, Rs 150-00. pb.

A comprehensive and challenging evaluation of Indian Missions from 1972-1997. Dr. Rajendran calls for a comprehensive commitment to fulfill Christ's Great Commission through greater clarity of vision, co-operative effort and care for missionaries. (Out of Stock)

Footprints in Water: A Hospital Chaplain looks at Suffering, Sunny Philip, 140pp. 2002, Rs. 75-00. pb.

Vellore CMC's former senior chaplain writes with feeling on the problem of pain.

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How Many Chappatis do you Want?Couples Making Decisions - Case studies from the Bible and modern Christians. Beulah Wood. Viii, 166pp. 1999, Rs. 90-00. pb.

No, this is not a cookbook, nor a manual on arranging a marriage. It is not a resource for counselling troubled marriages. Instead, it explores the way husbands and wives in the Bible related to each other and what God expected of them in making decisions. Some surprising conclusions emerge.

Know the Signs and Keep on Loving: A Christian Counsellor Looks at Suicide. Sopnakumari G. viii, 48pp. 1999. Rs. 40-00. pb.

How can we counsel and help prevent suicide.

Turn the Key to Creativity: and preach more effectively. Beulah Wood. Vi,177pp. 2003. Rs 90-00. pb.

How to bring creativity into Indian sermons and preach more effectively.

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Audio-based Translation: Communicating Biblical Scriptures to Non-Literate People. Julian Sundersingh. Xii, 226p. 2001.pb.

In communicating biblical scriptures to non-literate people, creative approaches are needed since print media are beyond their reach. Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, including the contemporary media scene, communication theory, linguistic studies, translation issues, and theological perspectives, this study uses rural Tamil Nadu as a basis for examining the use of audio-media for communicating the Bible to people who cannot read.

Educating for Tomorrow: Theological Leadership for the Asian Context. Manfred Waldemar kohl & A.N.Lal Senanayake (eds.), viii, 237pp. 2002. Rs.395-00. pb.

Theological education needs change. In November 2001 the leaders of theological education institutes came together in Bangkok under the sponsorship of Overseas Council International. The key papers given at this institute, all on the theme of change, are published in this book.

God for All, God for Me: Gandhiji's Religious Dualism. A.J.Anandan. 88pp. 1998. Rs.75-00. pb.

An intriguing look at a provocative of M.K.Gandhi. How did Gandhi's religious views guide his charismatic leadership and political acumen?

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Women at Work in the Bible. Beulah Wood. 40pp.Reprint in 2002. In English Rs.26-00.[in Hindi Rs.22-00] pb.

Discover the value God places on women's work. Most teaching about women is on devotional life or family concerns, forgetting the majority hours women spend on work. Women at Work in the Bible fills the gap.

Jesus Talks to Women. Beulah Wood. 40pp. Re print in 2002. In English Rs.26-00.[in Hindi Rs.22-00] pb.

Jesus Talks to Women helps you discover how remarkable Jesus' attitude to women was in a day when men thought less of women than themselves.

A Casebook of Bible Marriages. Beulah Wood. 40pp. Reprint in 2002. In English Rs.26-00. pb.

In this book there's help to explore the decision-making in ten Bible marriages. Find out what God expected of husbands and wives.

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DOME SERIES

A Christian Theology of Religions: Recovering Dialectical Method. Narendra Singh, Dome Series, 2005, Rs. 195.00. Sample pages (pdf)

In A Christian Theology of Religions, Dr. Narendra Singh constructs a theology of religions that holds together the universal and the particular implications of the gospel in a unique dialectical relationship.

Tirunelveli's Evangelical Christians: Two Centuries of Family Vamsãvazhi Traditions, David and Sarojini Packiamuthu, (Editor and Translators) & Robert E. Frykenberg and Chris Barrigar (General Editors), xxxviii, 159p. 2003, pb. Rs.140.00

This volume is an act of remembering, Herein is a collection of eighteen family vamsãvazhi traditions from Tirunelveli narratives of ancestors who became Christian in centuries past, recounting family joys, sufferings, virtues and failings that came with new faith and conversion. These chapters represent a partial recovery, by some of India's Christians, of a portion of their common past. Indeed, this uncovering and preserving of what lay buried in Tirunelveli's past can serve as an impetus and model for Christian remembering elsewhere in South Asia.

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