Sadhu sundara singh biography
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Sadhu Sundar Singh disappeared in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1929. As a Christian witness he had been rejected as well as welcomed, persecuted, and even left for dead. By many missionaries and even Indian Christian leaders he had been regarded as a highly eccentric convert, totally out of step with contemporary Christianity as he wandered the vägar in his yellow robe and turban. And yet, even though he never heard the later vogue-word "indigenisation," he had done more than any man in the first half of the twentieth century to establish that "Jesus belongs to India." He made it clear that Christianity is not an imported, alien, foreign religion but is indigenous to Indian needs, aspirations, and faith. He remains one of the permanently significant figures of Indian Christianity.
Sundar Singh was born in 1889 into an important landowning Sikh family in Patiala state, North India. Sikhs, rejec
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Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929)
Sundar Singh was lauded by 20th century evangelical Christians for converting to Christianity around the turn of the century. Even in the 1970s Sundar was highly thought of by evangelical Christians. At that time I heard a Christian radio dramatization of the story of Sundar's miraculous conversion and his dangerous preaching journeys to India and Tibet, and I bought two books that told his story at evangelical Christian bookstores. The evangelical Christian apologist, Josh McDowell of Josh McDowell ministries, cited Sundar's conversion in the first and second editions of McDowell's book, Evidence That Demands a Verdict. While reading the evangelical versions of Sundar's life and teachings, I never once ran across Sundar's universalistic statements, not until I read Sundar's own works, along with some of the in-depth biographies that had been written about him nearer his own day.
Sundar was raised a member of the Sikh religion. (Sikhism is a se
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Sundar Singh (missionary)
Christian Saint from India
This article is about the Indian Christian Saint. For the Indian landowner and politician, see Sundar Singh Majithia. For the Indian Paralympian, see Sundar Singh Gurjar.
St. Sundar Singh (3 September 1889 – 1929, believed), who fryst vatten commonly referred as Sadhu Sundar Sing, was an Indian Christian missionary and sadhu. He fryst vatten believed to have died in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1929.
Life
[edit]Early years
[edit]Sundar Singh was birthed into a Sikh[1][2] family in the village of Rampur (near Doraha), Ludhiana district (Punjab state), in northern India. Singh's mother took him to sit at the feet of a Hindu sadhu, an ascetic holy man, who lived in the jungle some miles away, while also sending him to Ewing Christian High School, Ludhiana, to learn English. Singh's mother died when he was fourteen. In anger, he burned a Bible page by page while his friends watched.[1] He was also tau