Saving Sinners, even Moslems
The Arabian Mission (1889-1973) and its Intellectual Roots
1st Edition
Published on 9. October 2018
278 pages
978-1-5275-1844-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book investigates the Mission of the Reformed Church in America sent to Arabia in 1889 to preach the Gospel, and which operated in the Persian Gulf until 1973. It also explores the various cultural encounters between missionaries and Muslims, and discusses conversion and the place of Islam in the Protestant eschatology. It maintains that John G. Lansing from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Jersey, who founded the Arabian Mission, deliberately dedicated the Mission to "e,direct Muslim evangelism"e,. In terms of premillennialism, Lansing "e,moved"e, Islam into the very centre of the theological discourse, and presented the evangelization of Muslims as critical for Christ's Second Coming. This made the Arabian Mission unique among the American Protestant Missions, and placed the Church and missionaries between religious pluralism and the obligations of the Great Commission.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One
- 1. Enthusiasm for missions
- 2. The ideology of missions
- 3. Revivalist movements and mission
- 4. W.E. Hocking and Re-Thinking Missions
- 5. Missions and culture
- Chapter Two
- 1. Reformed theology and mission
- 2. "The Wheel"
- 3. "I purpose to be a foreign missionary"
- 4. Reaching Mecca via Jeddah
- 5. From Aden to Basrah
- 6. "Put your shoulders to the old 'wheel'"
- Chapter Three
- 1. The experience of H.H. Jessup
- 2. The Will of God
- 3. "The leaves for the healing of the nations"
- 4. The Moslem World
- 5. Preaching the gospel in al-Azhar
- Chapter Four
- 1. "The dying forces of Islam"
- 2. Zwemer and the "White man's burden"
- 3. Too early for the emancipation!
- 4. The politics of the Gulf
- Chapter Five
- 1. From Cairo to Lucknow, and Edinburgh
- 2. Conversion and "Ilminsky's system"
- 3. The enigma of Pan-Islamism
- 4. The Muslim world is a unit
- 5. How to reach Muslims?
- 6. Who was Mohammed?
- 7. The objections of Muslims to Christianity
- Chapter Six
- 1. Stations
- 2. "Equip me, Lord!"
- 3. Why Arabia, but not Kentucky?
- 4. "My glasses are so green"
- 5. Building experience
- 6. "Thousands of Moslem converts"
- 7. Colporters
- 8. Converts
- 9. "The Lamb is worthy to receive riches"
- Chapter Seven
- 1. Towards plurality
- 2. Dialogue and evangelization
- 3. "God" instead of "Allah"
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
