Lamin Sanneh quotes

“The original language of Christianity is translation.”
-- Lamin Sanneh

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“Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they beat their sacred drums for him until the stars skipped and danced in the skies. After that dance the stars weren't little anymore. Christianity helped Africans to become renewed Africans, not remade Europeans.”
-- Lamin Sanneh

Source : Lamin Sanneh (2003). “Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West”, p.43, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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“God was in Christ, reconciling the world.”
-- Lamin Sanneh

Source : Lamin Sanneh (2003). “Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West”, p.71, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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“Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”

“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”

“Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 35, 1895.

“Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.”

“A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.”

“May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.”

“All language is but a poor translation.”

“Every act of communication is an act of translation.”

“Poetry is what is gained in translation.”

Source : "Raw Material by Derek Mahon - review" by Aingeal Clare, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.

“In art as in life, some things need no translation.”

Source : Paula Vogel (1992). “The Baltimore Waltz”, p.24, Dramatists Play Service Inc