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Description of  After-Mission, Beyond Evangelicalism The Indigenous Injliyyn in the Arab-Muslim Context of Syria-Lebanon (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 18)

9004444351 pdf After-Mission touches on on three questions.The first question is about self-perception and identity-formation strategies, and the various views that we have on the Protestants relation to their Arab Muslim Middle Eastern context. The second question, about the theological dimension, asks what kind of a theological discourse do the Protestants need to develop, and how do they need to re-form their own theological heritage, in such a manner that will allow them to heal the historical enmity and suspicion towards them from the Eastern Orthodox Christian community in the region? Finally, the third question touches on the Protestants future in the Arab Muslim Middle East by viewing this inquiry from a broader perspective that is related to all the Middle Eastern Christian communities presence and role in the Muslim-majority context. The question of identity formation, and the managing of difference without trapping it in the mud of otherizing and self-otherizing, will also be tackled, so that the theological dimension is integrated with the broader, multifaceted contextual one. Read more