I don't understand why there are no Christian reviews of this book.?

Question

I am in the process of reading "Left to Tell-Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust." Most of the reviews in the first couple of pages are from New Age gurus (Dr. Wayne Dyer wrote the forward). There are no reviews that I can see by any noted Christian evangilist or authors.

It is an awesome book. I just find it interesting that the New Agers have embraced it and Christians have (to my knowledge) ignored it. HELP ME UNDERSTAND.

Answer 1

I wonder that myself. I actually saw Immaculee in person by accident and heard her tell her story, AWESOME! She's so real. The book is wonderful. Perhaps it is because of the printers, Hay House does alot of New Age printing. It is because they haven't heard of her story, she's a Catholic too, hmm I've looked myself (being a Catholic as well) nothing in the Catholic presses either. Rawanda isn't the most pleasent of memories and was virtually ignored when it happened for the west and we could learn alot from that today ironically. Perhaps the New Agers need well I'd say the agnostic, and anyone dealing with pain and forgivness issues does too, would benefit from her testimony. Nothing against Wayne Dyer. By the way I tried to read a book by him, the last one by him and it was odd. Though with Dyer's introvention this book was published. Elie Wiesel had a very difficult time getting Night printed as well, survivers often get silenced a second time when publishers and the public ignore important stories like this, holocausr stories are not pleasent. From the intro for 'Night' Wiesel's account of Birkenau " Is that why my manuscript-written in Yiddish as "And The World Remained Silent" and translated first into French, then into English-was rejected by every major publisher, French and American, despite the tireless efforts of the great Catholic French writer and Nobel laureate Francious Mauriac? After months and months of personal visits, letteres, and telephone calls, he finally suceeded in getting it to print" Holocausts are awful Rawanda was just as the Nazi camps horrible. 99.5% of the Tutsi died, Night is a classic now I hope Left To Tell is as well.

Answer 2

I am not convinced that Wayne is new ager.I did hear him once on TV where he admitted living in the South Pacific. But every thing he said applied basically to the work of the Holy Spirit movement in our average lives, obviously for popular consumption. So be careful in your assumption unless you are absolutely sure.

I know nothing about the book.

Answer 3

1. I assume you have read every possible magazine or newspaper to determine whether there are any Christian reviews.

2. Before writing a review, you have to know the book exists.

3. Oops, I just found a Christian review at
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/186/story_18692_1.html

Answer 4

if you are reading only the reviews in the book, you can assume that they only printed ones they wanted to print, they would have submitted the manuscript to varoius religious people. It would worry me if a "new age guru is writing a review of a book that is suppose to be a christian book.

assuming it is thier marketing plan to make it appeal to non christian people

Answer 5

I guess they don't Rwanda is relevent to Jesus.