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1 online resource (xiv, 387 pages) |
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Theology and mission in world Christianity,
2452-2953 ;
volume 18
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Theology and mission in world Christianity ; v. 18.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Note |
Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Mission, Evangelicalism and Injīliyya as 'Identity Formation' -- Chapter 1 'After Mission, Beyond Evangelicalism' in Context -- 1 Approaching Mission in This Study -- 2 'After Mission' as Context -- 3 'Beyond Evangelicalism' as Outcome -- 4 After Reactionary Survival, Beyond Pragmatic Denial -- 5 Where To Go from Here? -- Chapter 2 The So-Called 'Nominal Christians' in the Arab Orient -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The 'Nominal' Christians -- 3 From 'Proselytism' to 'Reform from Within' -- 4 The Project of Reforming the 'Nominal Christians' |
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5 Questionable Weltanschauung, Problematic Achievement -- Chapter 3 The Arab Eastern Protestants Critically Appraised in Their Homeland -- 1 Introduction -- 2 'Who Are We? What Do We Represent?' Protestants in Their Own Eyes -- 3 The Protestants in the Eyes of Easterners (1): a Colonial-ImperialistInstrument -- 4 Eastern Protestants Respond to the 'Colonial-Imperialist' Accusation -- 5 The Protestants in the Eyes of Easterners (2): Culturally Alienated and Contextually Estranged Entities -- 6 Eastern Protestants Respond to the 'Cultural Alienation' Accusation |
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7 Protestants in Syria and Lebanon: Asking the Same Question Again? -- Chapter 4Where Do the Injīliyyūn Stand? What Needs to Be Remedied? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Identity Formation and the Otherizing Practice -- 3 From Euangeliun to Injīliy -- 4 When 'Evangelical' Became a Cultural Ideology -- 5 Identity as 'Difference': between Distinction and Opposition -- 6 Revising Western 'Evangelicalism' and Its Relevance to Arab Eastern Protestantism -- 7 Detaching from History and the Trap of 'Amnesiac Identity' -- 8 Promising Potential Changes upon the Horizon? |
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9 Injīliyya as Identity Crisis: Final Remarks -- Part 2 Witness as Theologization: toward a Theological Self-Perception -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Chapter 5 The Injīliyyūn and Their Relation to the Ecclesial Past: Tracing the Roots of a Worldview -- 1 A Church without Roots? Or, Autobiographical Anamnesis -- 2 Why This Detachment from History? -- 3 What Would the Stance of the Protestant Reformers Have Been? -- 4 Suspicion toward the Past: a Possible Change upon the Horizon? -- 5 Frameworking a Diagnosed Crisis: Concluding Remarks |
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Chapter 6 Towards an Arab Eastern Protestant Neo-Patristic Synthesis: a Proposal -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why Neo-Patristic Synthesis? -- 3 On the Core Discourse of Neo-Patristic Synthesis -- 4 Protestant Neo-Patristic Synthesis: an Example of Implication -- 5 The Two Theological Outcomes of a Protestant Neo-Patristic Synthesis -- 5.1 Theologization as Remembrance -- 5.2 Theologization as Engagement -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Part 3 Presence as Symbiosis: towards a Future Relational Role -- Introduction to Part 3 |
| Summary |
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. This will furnish the basis for the ensuing parts, as it will provide the study with coherent and analytical readings of the cultural situation and intellectual views of the Arab Eastern Protestants in their Sitz im Leben from the perspective of the hermeneutic tripod of 'identity-othering-relationality'. 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? How should they re-think their traditional view on theological subjects common to them and the Eastern Christian tradition? Traditional Protestant attitudes towards Eastern Christianity, which have been viewed through the lens of evangelicalism and mission, have failed to grant the Protestants an influential and truly indigenous presence in the region and have led to them being constantly accused of being a foreign transplant and alien entity. In the light of this, it is clear that going beyond missiology and traditional evangelicalism demands re-thinking certain mutually shared but contentious theological subjects from a new perspective with the focus on more constructive attempts to build fellowship through dialogue. 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. It will discuss questions about the kind of presence and role that Christians, Protestants included, should hope to play in order to guarantee survival and a continuing presence in the region. 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Protestantism -- Arab countries -- History.
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Christianity -- Arab countries.
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Religious minorities -- Arab countries.
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Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
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Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Arab countries -- Church history.
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Christianity |
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Interfaith relations |
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Islam |
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Protestantism |
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Religious minorities |
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Arab countries |
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Church history
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: ʻAwaḍ, Najīb. After-mission, beyond Evangelicalism. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004444355 (DLC) 2020043010 (OCoLC)1195712185 |
| ISBN |
9789004444362 (electronic book) |
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900444436X (electronic book) |
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9789004444355 (paperback) |
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9004444351 (paperback) |
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