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Truth and Transformation: A Manifesto for Ailing Nations
In this landmark book endorsed by Chuck Colson, Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi surveys the Gospel's power to reform society. Lessons gleaned from the Bible come alive when viewed through the lens of his own experience. Rather than simply suggesting that politicians invest more money in aiding the oppressed, Mangalwadi delves into the ideological roots of social oppression. he suggests that reform is never without controversy, and that reforming a culture's values is a necessary precursor to stable, lasting liberation for the oppressed. His book culminates with the Christian vision of hope in God's making all things new.
317 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2009
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Vishal Mangalwadi
54 books117 followersVishal Mangalwadi (1949-) is an international lecturer, social reformer, cultural and political columnist, and author of thirteen books. Born and raised in India, he studied philosophy at universities, in Hindu ashrams, and at L’Abri Fellowship in Switzerland. In 1976 he turned down several job offers in the West to return to India where he and his wife, Ruth, founded a community to serve the rural poor. Vishal continued his involvement in community development serving at the headquarters of two national political parties, where he worked for the empowerment and liberation of peasants and the lower castes.
His first book, The World of Gurus, was published in 1977 by India's Vikas Publishing House, and serialized in India’s then-largest weekly, Sunday. It is still used as a text book in universities. It was Mangalwadi’s book on the New Age Movement and India: The Grand Experiment, that first brought his works to the attention of the American public. In demand worldwide, Vishal is a dynamic and engaging speaker who has lectured in 34 countries. He enjoys simplifying complex ideas and inspiring despairing hearts with hope.
His first book, The World of Gurus, was published in 1977 by India's Vikas Publishing House, and serialized in India’s then-largest weekly, Sunday. It is still used as a text book in universities. It was Mangalwadi’s book on the New Age Movement and India: The Grand Experiment, that first brought his works to the attention of the American public. In demand worldwide, Vishal is a dynamic and engaging speaker who has lectured in 34 countries. He enjoys simplifying complex ideas and inspiring despairing hearts with hope.
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August 9, 2024
«La Reforma transformó Occidente porque hizo de los europeos aprendices cuyo libro de texto fue la Biblia y Jesús su maestro supremo. La elección que tiene por delante nuestra generación es buscar una vez más el conocimiento de Dios o hundirse en un abismo de ignorancia, corrupción y esclavitud paganas (Proverbios 4:5-8)»
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November 16, 2024
En este libro decisivo, el profesor internacional Vishal Mangalwadi expone el poder del evangelio para sanar a la sociedad occidental.
October 4, 2012
As I said when I finished the book entitled The Book That Changed Your World, Vishal is one of my new favorite authors. He writes well, communicates clearly and will make you think. The first 4 chapters are worth the price of this book. He is able to take what Francis Schaeffer was communicating about the bible being a book that helps us understand the whole world and put it in real world, practicle, easy to understand terms so that the believer can readily see that the Bible really is a book of truth. Not just spiritual truth but true truth. And the ways of man, truely all the ways of man outside the will of god lead to disaster. buy the book, read the first 4 chapters, you won't regret it.
April 20, 2014
One inspiring book to read. This man writes with the Spirit!
May 3, 2015
I almost gave this book 2 stars for its look at corruption in appendix 1. But then I remembered the rest of the book, so I didn't. The book promotes itself as an Eastern perspective on the West. It is not. Newbigin's work is more Eastern than this, and he was a Brit. Mangalwadi has swallowed Western culture wholeheartedly. He seems like a nice guy. I like where he ends up some of the time. But the way that he gets there is ridiculous often to the point of absurdity.
The logic runs something like this:
A: The West is advanced
B: The West was Christian for a time
Therefore, Christianity causes advances. Non-Christianity will cause collapse. India has not advanced because it is not Christian. There are a million holes in this theory, even in the cherry-picked cases that Mr. Mangalwadi presents. More embarrassing, he has to overlook mountains of corruption (like the slave trade for example, colonialism, etc.) in his attempt to baptize western culture. He has to ignore the creation of systems in the West (like checks and balances) that are Christian in the sense that they admit that all people have sin natures and no amount of "worldview" keeps people from stealing, cheating, seizing power if it is too easy. To be honest, this could be a really, really long review if we started poking holes in this book. Not worth it.
But just because I disagree with Mangalwadi doesn't mean there is no redeeming value in his work. Most work that I've read on corruption is theoretical, where Mangalwadi has some real experience and it shows. As it does, a little bit, when he talks about power dynamics and shame cultures. In my humble opinion, ignore most of his argumentation. Ignore everything he says about the West. Ignore most of the way that he castigates the non-West. And then you'll find a few nuggets. Or you could just read the quotes that I thought were interesting / ridiculous below.
Corruption turns every institution from servant into master. Corrupt societies don’t produce institutions such as a free press or independent judiciary to safeguard the liberties of the “small man.” (p.224)
The cross is the emblem of a Christian culture. It began to transform England with the generation that wrote the Magna Carta (1215). Henry de Bracton, England’s most famous judge in that period, expounded the meaning of the cross. He argued that the cross implies that God wants justice and mercy, not brute force, to rule on earth. God could have used his power to destroy Satan and his works, said de Bracton, but he used the cross to defeat Satan. Among other things, the cross symbolizes the means God uses to redeem mankind from sin, including corruption. (p.233)
It is common to denounce “Western individualism” and extol “Asian values” of family and community. But compare the scene at the domestic terminal of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on any given morning with the scene at a bus stop in London. You expect to see the most educated and sophisticated Indians at the airport, and the working-class people at the bus stop in London. The Europeans are individualists; we Indians are supposed to be respectful toward others in the community. Surprisingly, however, it is the Western individualists who would spontaneously form a queue (even if it is after a hard day’s work, when they are anxious to get home), while we Indians push, shove, and try to jump the queue. The folks in the West would even allow someone with special needs to go ahead of them. What makes the difference? The cross of Jesus Christ symbolizes radical individualism, for it implies both Christ’s rejection of and Christ’s rejection by the world, that is, by his own culture. To take up one’s cross means to have the strength to stand alone, to reject and to accept rejection. St. Paul, who faced persistent persecution by the world and finally changed the world, said that he would boast of the cross through which he is dead to the world and the world is dead to him (Gal. 6:14). Paul’s fiercest enemies were the Jews—his own people—who saw him as the greatest threat to their culture. The individualism that the cross symbolizes is not only radical but also radically different from what the term now means to the secular mind. Secular individualism is self-centeredness; the cross is the opposite, for it means denial of self in favor of surrender to God. (p.240)
The cross is a typical expression of an Asian culture using shame to coerce its members to fall in line, to conform to its code. The New Testament says that in enduring the cross Jesus turned his culture’s weapon of shame against his culture: he “scorned” or “despised” its shame (Heb. 12:2). He refused to be ashamed of what they wanted him to be ashamed of. Instead, he made them ashamed of what they ought to have been ashamed of. We are to follow Jesus, who “suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore” (Heb. 13:12–13).(p.245)
"moral integrity is a huge factor behind the unique socioeconomic/sociopolitical success of the West. Where did this morality come from?"
In cultures that permit polygamy, monogamy may be a social fact, but it is not a moral restraint to an exclusive sexual relationship with one person only. The Beatles turned against their guru Mahesh Yogi, calling his celibacy a lie (John Lennon), because they did not understand that in Hinduism “celibacy” does not mean absolute abstinence from sex; it means abstinence from marriage and harnessing of sexual energy for becoming divine (Brahma). The Hindu word for celibacy is brahmacharya, which involves an effort to become Brahma. (p.46)
So why don’t American women haul water and cow dung on their heads? Our women do so because they cannot say to their husbands, “You bring water today, because you are sitting and playing cards. I want to put my feet up and read Good Cowkeeping.” Polygamy and temple prostitution made our women weak. If a wife asked her husband to stop playing cards or smoking pot in order to haul water or organize the community and get the village council to vote for a twenty-four-hour water supply, then the husband would simply love the second wife or go worship the temple goddess. The amazing irony is that some women reject monogamy because they think that to be tied exclusively to one person is slavery. In reality monogamy makes a husband a virtual slave to his wife. When told he has to stop playing cards and get water, the poor fellow cannot protest and take a second wife who would be less demanding. He cannot go to the temple and love a goddess or sleep in his mistress’s home. He cannot divorce his bossy wife. In fact, he is not even allowed to hate her. He has to bring not just water but also a bouquet of flowers, preferably with a love note that says, “Honey, why don’t you rest for a change! I will make dinner tonight.” ... Easy divorce has already turned monogamy—the school of Western character—into serial polygamy. (p.47-8)
The man was begging neither because he was blind nor because he was a sinner, but because Israel was blind to the fact that he was an image-bearer of God, the crown of God’s creation. He was a beggar because Israel had sinned by not caring for him. The disciples, instead of seeing their own sinful indifference to their neighbor, judged the man and his parents for his blindness. (p.73)
Power was not an accidental byproduct of compassion. Jesus consciously used his service to cultivate a mass following to transform his society. Look at his strategy following the raising of Lazarus in John’s gospel. (p.79)
When the district authorities arrested thirty of us for bringing relief to poor peasants, we were told a proverb: our state gets three crops a year—the winter crop, the monsoon crop, and the relief crop. The last is always a bumper crop for politicians and civil servants; they get the lion’s share of the money intended for relief for the poor. (p.97)
C. S. Lewis was right when he said that the post-Christian West takes bribery-free society for granted. It is an amazing blessing, a fruit of the gospel. That fruit will not last much longer, since the roots have been dug out. The Western church has already lost the battle against sexual corruption; it is completely unprepared for the battle against economic corruption. The Romanian evangelicals saw no connection between the gospel and freedom from bribery because the American evangelicals who discipled them thought that the gospel was about going to heaven and had nothing to do with God’s kingdom on earth. They didn’t know that it was the gospel that transformed America. (p.221)
The gospel of the kingdom has become captive to mere personal interest, felt needs, aspirations of prosperity, postmodern relativism, and social and political ambitions. Certainly there are aspects of most of these in the gospel of the kingdom; however, the gospel of the kingdom is much broader, much deeper, much more integrated, and much more sweeping in its implications and power than any or all of its present-day substitutes. (p.254)
The logic runs something like this:
A: The West is advanced
B: The West was Christian for a time
Therefore, Christianity causes advances. Non-Christianity will cause collapse. India has not advanced because it is not Christian. There are a million holes in this theory, even in the cherry-picked cases that Mr. Mangalwadi presents. More embarrassing, he has to overlook mountains of corruption (like the slave trade for example, colonialism, etc.) in his attempt to baptize western culture. He has to ignore the creation of systems in the West (like checks and balances) that are Christian in the sense that they admit that all people have sin natures and no amount of "worldview" keeps people from stealing, cheating, seizing power if it is too easy. To be honest, this could be a really, really long review if we started poking holes in this book. Not worth it.
But just because I disagree with Mangalwadi doesn't mean there is no redeeming value in his work. Most work that I've read on corruption is theoretical, where Mangalwadi has some real experience and it shows. As it does, a little bit, when he talks about power dynamics and shame cultures. In my humble opinion, ignore most of his argumentation. Ignore everything he says about the West. Ignore most of the way that he castigates the non-West. And then you'll find a few nuggets. Or you could just read the quotes that I thought were interesting / ridiculous below.
Corruption turns every institution from servant into master. Corrupt societies don’t produce institutions such as a free press or independent judiciary to safeguard the liberties of the “small man.” (p.224)
The cross is the emblem of a Christian culture. It began to transform England with the generation that wrote the Magna Carta (1215). Henry de Bracton, England’s most famous judge in that period, expounded the meaning of the cross. He argued that the cross implies that God wants justice and mercy, not brute force, to rule on earth. God could have used his power to destroy Satan and his works, said de Bracton, but he used the cross to defeat Satan. Among other things, the cross symbolizes the means God uses to redeem mankind from sin, including corruption. (p.233)
It is common to denounce “Western individualism” and extol “Asian values” of family and community. But compare the scene at the domestic terminal of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on any given morning with the scene at a bus stop in London. You expect to see the most educated and sophisticated Indians at the airport, and the working-class people at the bus stop in London. The Europeans are individualists; we Indians are supposed to be respectful toward others in the community. Surprisingly, however, it is the Western individualists who would spontaneously form a queue (even if it is after a hard day’s work, when they are anxious to get home), while we Indians push, shove, and try to jump the queue. The folks in the West would even allow someone with special needs to go ahead of them. What makes the difference? The cross of Jesus Christ symbolizes radical individualism, for it implies both Christ’s rejection of and Christ’s rejection by the world, that is, by his own culture. To take up one’s cross means to have the strength to stand alone, to reject and to accept rejection. St. Paul, who faced persistent persecution by the world and finally changed the world, said that he would boast of the cross through which he is dead to the world and the world is dead to him (Gal. 6:14). Paul’s fiercest enemies were the Jews—his own people—who saw him as the greatest threat to their culture. The individualism that the cross symbolizes is not only radical but also radically different from what the term now means to the secular mind. Secular individualism is self-centeredness; the cross is the opposite, for it means denial of self in favor of surrender to God. (p.240)
The cross is a typical expression of an Asian culture using shame to coerce its members to fall in line, to conform to its code. The New Testament says that in enduring the cross Jesus turned his culture’s weapon of shame against his culture: he “scorned” or “despised” its shame (Heb. 12:2). He refused to be ashamed of what they wanted him to be ashamed of. Instead, he made them ashamed of what they ought to have been ashamed of. We are to follow Jesus, who “suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore” (Heb. 13:12–13).(p.245)
"moral integrity is a huge factor behind the unique socioeconomic/sociopolitical success of the West. Where did this morality come from?"
In cultures that permit polygamy, monogamy may be a social fact, but it is not a moral restraint to an exclusive sexual relationship with one person only. The Beatles turned against their guru Mahesh Yogi, calling his celibacy a lie (John Lennon), because they did not understand that in Hinduism “celibacy” does not mean absolute abstinence from sex; it means abstinence from marriage and harnessing of sexual energy for becoming divine (Brahma). The Hindu word for celibacy is brahmacharya, which involves an effort to become Brahma. (p.46)
So why don’t American women haul water and cow dung on their heads? Our women do so because they cannot say to their husbands, “You bring water today, because you are sitting and playing cards. I want to put my feet up and read Good Cowkeeping.” Polygamy and temple prostitution made our women weak. If a wife asked her husband to stop playing cards or smoking pot in order to haul water or organize the community and get the village council to vote for a twenty-four-hour water supply, then the husband would simply love the second wife or go worship the temple goddess. The amazing irony is that some women reject monogamy because they think that to be tied exclusively to one person is slavery. In reality monogamy makes a husband a virtual slave to his wife. When told he has to stop playing cards and get water, the poor fellow cannot protest and take a second wife who would be less demanding. He cannot go to the temple and love a goddess or sleep in his mistress’s home. He cannot divorce his bossy wife. In fact, he is not even allowed to hate her. He has to bring not just water but also a bouquet of flowers, preferably with a love note that says, “Honey, why don’t you rest for a change! I will make dinner tonight.” ... Easy divorce has already turned monogamy—the school of Western character—into serial polygamy. (p.47-8)
The man was begging neither because he was blind nor because he was a sinner, but because Israel was blind to the fact that he was an image-bearer of God, the crown of God’s creation. He was a beggar because Israel had sinned by not caring for him. The disciples, instead of seeing their own sinful indifference to their neighbor, judged the man and his parents for his blindness. (p.73)
Power was not an accidental byproduct of compassion. Jesus consciously used his service to cultivate a mass following to transform his society. Look at his strategy following the raising of Lazarus in John’s gospel. (p.79)
When the district authorities arrested thirty of us for bringing relief to poor peasants, we were told a proverb: our state gets three crops a year—the winter crop, the monsoon crop, and the relief crop. The last is always a bumper crop for politicians and civil servants; they get the lion’s share of the money intended for relief for the poor. (p.97)
C. S. Lewis was right when he said that the post-Christian West takes bribery-free society for granted. It is an amazing blessing, a fruit of the gospel. That fruit will not last much longer, since the roots have been dug out. The Western church has already lost the battle against sexual corruption; it is completely unprepared for the battle against economic corruption. The Romanian evangelicals saw no connection between the gospel and freedom from bribery because the American evangelicals who discipled them thought that the gospel was about going to heaven and had nothing to do with God’s kingdom on earth. They didn’t know that it was the gospel that transformed America. (p.221)
The gospel of the kingdom has become captive to mere personal interest, felt needs, aspirations of prosperity, postmodern relativism, and social and political ambitions. Certainly there are aspects of most of these in the gospel of the kingdom; however, the gospel of the kingdom is much broader, much deeper, much more integrated, and much more sweeping in its implications and power than any or all of its present-day substitutes. (p.254)
April 22, 2023
Another gem of a book from Vishal Mangalwadi, a.k.a. the “Indian Francis Schaeffer.” If you’ve not read this book or his later book, “The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization,” I would enthusiastically commend either as one of the most important books you’ll read this year. Vishal’s outside Eastern, yet thoroughly Christian critique of the West (and the East) will provide insights to Western readers they rarely get. I also appreciated so many of his examples from India; an education, to be sure. Ironically, I read most of this book while visiting India, and shared its insights with several Indian Christians.
February 2, 2020
This is a very interesting book, and the basic ideas are correct and good: idolatry is what has caused many of the problems with society; corruption comes from lack of a Christian view of how things work; the way people can be set free from oppression and corruption is by knowing and living out the truth.
But some of the finer details and arguments don’t always seem quite right. I’m often left thinking, “Is that Biblical?” about things that don’t sound completely false, but also don’t sound completely true.
But some of the finer details and arguments don’t always seem quite right. I’m often left thinking, “Is that Biblical?” about things that don’t sound completely false, but also don’t sound completely true.
March 22, 2025
I got pretty lost on the focus of this book towards the last half - but the first half and his lens on culture and justice I think is very interesting. A lot of what he shares makes sense, though I don’t agree with some of his ideas of western culture, but it was interesting to learn his thoughts about the roots of oppression from India, where he’s from.
January 8, 2018
It was alright. Nothing much stood out to me beyond the first chapter with the comparing and contrasting the lives of Europe's monks to what the Middle Eastern monks did. That was interesting. But, after that, I can't say that anything stood out to me.
August 15, 2018
The first couple chapters had some interesting, though not necessarily convincing, ideas about politics, culture, and religion, but overall this book has very little to say that is compelling or noteworthy.
January 30, 2023
Totally thought provoking. It's amazing to have insight I to the gospel and how culture and our worldview influences so much of the culture around us. I am not a huge fan of nonfiction, but it was so easy to read. It felt like a conversation with Vishal.
November 6, 2023
A fascinating look at the roots of corruption and social injustice and how a Christian worldview offers a direct antidote. My one critique is the disdain towards Catholicism/idolizing of Martin Luther shown in the last few chapters :(
May 10, 2025
I read this with my daughter as part of her 8th grade curriculum. I thought it was going to be too advanced for her but we had the best discussions about what a life living for Christ looks like and how we're seeing what that absence looks like in our country.
July 10, 2020
Absolutely brilliant book, couldn't put it down. Vishal has rocketed his way into one of my favorite Christian authors/thinkers.
August 18, 2020
Challenging and thought provoking book about Western society, its roots and how we are moving away from these roots and the consequences this will bring.
May 20, 2021
Bacanísimo
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May 17, 2022Pretty good.
June 13, 2024
Was surprised with the amount of knowledge Vishal has about the western.
January 20, 2025
Un libro que todo cristiano debería de leer♥️
July 26, 2016
Tolle lege. This deserves a thorough review and not just a brief pointer. Definitely a worthwhile read and fascinating insight into the buildup of the western civilization in Europe and N.Americas from outside i.e. India, but also does away with any romanticism concerning the subcontinent and its rich heritage, asceticism, spirituality and religiosity pointing to the inherent flaws and deep set faultlines of the Hindu worldview. There is some re-telling of good stories from his "The book that made your world", then a chapter that reads like an exegetical draft and even one that contextualizes the 10 commandments and has definite catechetical value too. The outlook in the chapter "from worldview programs to kingdom movement" is a challenge and I would definitely like to work more with his attached study guide too. That's a nice note to close the WCC consultation on and get back into the workings of our Seminary.
June 12, 2013
I highly recommend this book! It will transform you and change your perspective on the cross, the Holy Spirit, the church, the future, and your mission. Buy it and read it.
This book is a God send. What C.S. Lewis did for us in the 50s,and Francis Schaefer and Soltzenitsyn did for us in the 70s, and Ravi Zacharias did for us in the 90s, Mangalwadi is doing for us now. I am also listening to his CD series entitled "Must the Sun Set on the West?" Mangalwadi is an excellent antidote for all the New Age Mystical, anti-Christian stuff that is coming again like it did in the 70s.
I love this book. I am reading it again and I can't recommend it highly enough!
This book is a God send. What C.S. Lewis did for us in the 50s,and Francis Schaefer and Soltzenitsyn did for us in the 70s, and Ravi Zacharias did for us in the 90s, Mangalwadi is doing for us now. I am also listening to his CD series entitled "Must the Sun Set on the West?" Mangalwadi is an excellent antidote for all the New Age Mystical, anti-Christian stuff that is coming again like it did in the 70s.
I love this book. I am reading it again and I can't recommend it highly enough!
November 12, 2010
I had a hard time wading through the first half of the book, but ended up connecting with it more toward the end. I thought the author's insight into cultures of corruption was very good, and it was interesting to read about his experiences living among the poor in India and the cultural hindrances to developing new ways of making a living. I think the structure of the book could have been better--the appendices were quite lengthy, and the closing chapter was somewhat lacking. I think I would have liked a more complete summary of his work in the Indian village toward the beginning in order to have context for the stories he included throughout the book.
July 9, 2012
Vishal has a great angle on Western culture and society which is refreshing and authentic, as he clearly walks what he talks. His black and white, logical simplicity is engaging and very challenging, though i can't help feel that if he lived here for a while he would be infected by our grey cynicism...!
I find this book very challenging to my life as a disciple of Jesus. Most books on discipleship seem to stay within boundaries that i am comfortable/familiar with, so have the effect of encouraging more of the same. This book does not. It is challenging and pushes me far out to a whole different way of thinking about what it really means and costs to follow jesus.
I find this book very challenging to my life as a disciple of Jesus. Most books on discipleship seem to stay within boundaries that i am comfortable/familiar with, so have the effect of encouraging more of the same. This book does not. It is challenging and pushes me far out to a whole different way of thinking about what it really means and costs to follow jesus.
May 15, 2021
Wow! So much treasure in one volume. This book is a prophetic call to the nations to return to God's revelation in the Bible as the foundation for life and community. HE displays how the Bible has shaped American and Western culture (a central theme in the author's writings), how they are losing their hold on truth, morality and justice because they have abandoned this foundation, and how developing nations and societies need this foundation to truly flourish. It is a wake-up call to not only the nations, but the Church as well. For she is the pillar and ground of the truth.
May 15, 2012
I bought this book at the YWAM headquarters in Harpenden, England in 2010. I just now picked it up to read it and am loving it. Vishal is from India and so has a rather different perspective of the West. Living in Bolivia, I appreciate this. His insights are fresh and to the point, and Biblical. I can't wait to read more of him.
February 28, 2013
God desires more than souls; he desires nations. the premise is that if the eastern world, namely India, is to ever rise from its poverty, it must begin with the spiritual wealth of Christianity. it must begin with God's law and a biblical model of justice and compassion. an optimistic view of the course of history.
January 19, 2016
This is one of the best Christian books I've read in a while; I especially like how the author is not American. It gives a refreshing point of view.
(Obviously not everyone will agree with all of Mangalwadi's opinions, but if read with an open mind, it can be very helpful. If you still don't agree with things he says, that's fine, too. Defend your own opinions.)
(Obviously not everyone will agree with all of Mangalwadi's opinions, but if read with an open mind, it can be very helpful. If you still don't agree with things he says, that's fine, too. Defend your own opinions.)
August 31, 2025
El segundo gran transformador de mi pensamiento durante su etapa de despertar a la “cosmovisión cristiana” fue sin duda Vishal. Su aportación es valiosa tomando en cuenta que su experiencia nace desde las entrañas de una cosmovisión india, que abraza el cristianismo. Este libro es el complemento perfecto a Verdad Total de Nancy Pearcey
September 4, 2011
This man is far beyond me in his intellectual capacity! Very good book, and drew me to think about the worldviews and foundations of Western thought, and where we might be heading. Because if his intelligence, it took me a bit to get through it, but well worth it.
February 8, 2015
This is an incredible view of the United States from the perspective of an outsider. It clearly explains things like the cost of corruption and how our worldview affects the way we look at things like poverty and the value of human life. Easily readable style and definitely one I'd recommend!
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