Book Arrangement: The Insanity of God begins with a foreword written by David Platt. Following the foreword is the prologue, which is the followed by 34 chapters.
Book Content:
Chapters 1, 3, 5, and 7: In these chapters Ripken describes his time in Somaliland in the days before his organization began to take hold in this war-stricken country. He recounts stories of children dying of malnutrition just hours after interacting with him and mothers attempting to shove their infants into his team’s truck to give the children an improved chance at survival. At the end of this cluster of chapters, Ripken alludes that the worst is yet to come, causing the reader to question what could be worse than what he had already described.
Chapters 2, …show more content…
They begin with the revelation that the United States Army Task Force, which had been dispatched to Somaliland to eradicate rebel forces, had decimated nearly 700 Somalis in pursuit of rebel leaders. This event lead to the downfall of Ripken’s organization in the country as rebel Somalis began to kill the organization’s allies and threatened the lives of every member. While they attempt to continue their efforts, the author’s organization begin to lose momentum and the workers would begin to question the effectiveness of their …show more content…
It is also targeted towards anyone looking into or interested in mission work in Third World countries.
Purpose: The purpose of this book is for Ripken to describe to the reader both his personal experiences with finding God, and his experiences with trying to find God in other countries, some of which severely persecute Christians. He also shares some of these persecuted Christians’ stories to display to the reader what life is like for a Christian in religiously intolerant countries, and to inspire them to endeavor to help in mission work.
Ethos/Pathos/Logos: Nik Ripken utilizes an abundance of ethos, pathos, and logos in this book. He appeals to ethos in the fact that he wrote this story based on his own account and stories told to him by persecuted Christians, and in that he frequently referenced the Bible, the paramount source of credibility for a book about religion. Ripken appeals to pathos in the harrowing stories he recounts about children starving to death and men beaten and tortured on a daily basis, simply for openly believing in Christ. Finally, the author appeals to logos by informing the audience that all the stories in this book are true and also by including factual evidence about attacks launched on cities and numerical figures of the amount of people killed in said
Book Content:
Chapters 1, 3, 5, and 7: In these chapters Ripken describes his time in Somaliland in the days before his organization began to take hold in this war-stricken country. He recounts stories of children dying of malnutrition just hours after interacting with him and mothers attempting to shove their infants into his team’s truck to give the children an improved chance at survival. At the end of this cluster of chapters, Ripken alludes that the worst is yet to come, causing the reader to question what could be worse than what he had already described.
Chapters 2, …show more content…
They begin with the revelation that the United States Army Task Force, which had been dispatched to Somaliland to eradicate rebel forces, had decimated nearly 700 Somalis in pursuit of rebel leaders. This event lead to the downfall of Ripken’s organization in the country as rebel Somalis began to kill the organization’s allies and threatened the lives of every member. While they attempt to continue their efforts, the author’s organization begin to lose momentum and the workers would begin to question the effectiveness of their …show more content…
It is also targeted towards anyone looking into or interested in mission work in Third World countries.
Purpose: The purpose of this book is for Ripken to describe to the reader both his personal experiences with finding God, and his experiences with trying to find God in other countries, some of which severely persecute Christians. He also shares some of these persecuted Christians’ stories to display to the reader what life is like for a Christian in religiously intolerant countries, and to inspire them to endeavor to help in mission work.
Ethos/Pathos/Logos: Nik Ripken utilizes an abundance of ethos, pathos, and logos in this book. He appeals to ethos in the fact that he wrote this story based on his own account and stories told to him by persecuted Christians, and in that he frequently referenced the Bible, the paramount source of credibility for a book about religion. Ripken appeals to pathos in the harrowing stories he recounts about children starving to death and men beaten and tortured on a daily basis, simply for openly believing in Christ. Finally, the author appeals to logos by informing the audience that all the stories in this book are true and also by including factual evidence about attacks launched on cities and numerical figures of the amount of people killed in said