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Book SynopsisProvides a pioneering, exacting, and sweeping history of Georgian Baptists. Utilizing archival sources in Georgian, Russian, German, and English - translating many of these crucial documents for the first time into English - Malkhaz Songulashvili recounts the history of the EBCG from its formation in 1867 to the present.
Trade ReviewThis is by far the finest book on the evangelical movement in the former Soviet Union that I have ever read... In this formidable work, Songulashvili offers the most comprehensive study of the evangelical movement in Georgia yet to have appeared in the English language. -- Joshua T. Searle -- Studies in World Christianity
This book is essential reading for Western Christians. -- Stephen Platten -- Church Times
A significant addition to the field of Eastern European evangelical research. -- Toivo Pilli -- Baptistic Theologies
More than an ethnographic or even a historical report, Songulashvili's vivid historical narrative highlights the centrality of God's mission in an indigenous culture, demonstrating how the triangle of church, mission, and culture have interacted to energize non-Western missionaries to 'go and make disciples of all nations.' -- Ashti Mamash -- Fides Et Historia
Malkhaz Songulashvili's study of Georgian Evangelical Christian Baptists history and analysis of their attempts to change their mission paradigm, accommodating it more deeply to local Georgian culture, is a timely and helpful addition to the field. This pioneering analysis will no doubt be referred to for many years to come whether future authors agree or disagree with Songulashvili. -- Toivo Pilli -- Journal of Ecclesiastical History
This remarkable history of Baptist witness in the Republic of Georgia is a superb work of scholarship that utilises key primary sources in Georgian, Russian, German and English in telling the story of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia from the beginning of its witness in 1867 to the present day. -- Brian Talbot -- Baptist Union of Scotland
Songulashvili's book - with copious notes and appendices of documents - will be of interest to those studying Baptist history, the history of Georgia, religious communities in the region and the troubled independence period. -- Felix Corley -- SLAVONIC & EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Religion in Georgia and Baptists in Europe 1. The Setting for Religious Renewal in Georgia 2. The Early Activity of Georgian Evangelical Christians and Baptists (1919â1941) 3. The Formation of the Georgian ECBâs Institutional Identity (1942â1989) 4. Evangelism in Post-Soviet Georgia 5. Reforms in the Life of the ECB Community Conclusion: The Missiological Experience of the ECB
