A Spiritual Discovery Of The Christians In The Middle East

Author : Gabriel Quicke
Publisher : Gompel&Svacina
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789463712255

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A Spiritual Discovery of the Christians in the Middle East by Gabriel Quicke Pdf

This book presents the various Churches and ecclesial communities in the Middle East, focusing on the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox and the Oriental Catholic Churches, the spiritual heritage of the Coptic, Syriac and Armenian traditions. The Christians in the Middle East can be called a Church of martyrs. Listening to witnesses of faith in the first centuries, as well as to the martyrs of our time, this book reveals the cruel reality of the ‘forgotten genocides’ at the beginning of the twentieth century. The author discusses the role of Christians in the Middle East as bridge builders, and emphasizes the importance of a historical perspective in order to understand better the crisis in the Middle East, the search for the underlying cause of terrorist attacks, a plea for a spirituality of encounter: a growth in openness and a deepening of Christian identity. Finally, he reflects on the responsibility of the West and expresses the firm hope and expectation that there is still a future for the Christians in the Middle East, a new dawn.

Author : Martin Tamcke,Claudia Rammelt
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9783863954437

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Thinking about Christian Life in the Turmoil Times of the Middle East by Martin Tamcke,Claudia Rammelt Pdf

"Studies in the Middle East" is a one-year programme at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut (NEST). In honour of its 20th anniversary, academics and teachers from the NEST and from Germany met at Georg-August University in Göttingen and in the nearby Coptic Orthodox Monastery in Höxter-Brenkhausen to discuss the current situation in the Middle East and possible ways to initiate a spiritual new beginning in this crisis and war-ridden region. The present volume offers various contributions that were made on the subject.

Author : Akram Fouad Khater
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780815650577

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Embracing the Divine by Akram Fouad Khater Pdf

Hndiyya al-'Ujaimi, a young eighteenth-century nun whose faith was matched by her ambition and intellect, lies at the heart of this absorbing history of Middle Eastern Christianity. At the age of twenty-six, Hindiyya left her hometown of Aleppo to establish a convent in the mountains of Lebanon. Her order and her growing public profile as a visionary and living saint met with stiff opposition from Latin missionaries and with mistrust from the Vatican. Church authorities were suspicious of feminine spirituality and independent religious authority, eventually subjecting her to two Inquisitions by the Vatican. Sentenced to spend her entire life imprisoned, Hindiyya died in 1798 in her cell, leaving a legacy that shaped the church for many years to come. Compelling in its cinematic scope—resplendent with the requisite villains and mysterious events infused with sinister and sexual tensions, tragedy, and pathos—Hindiyya’s story holds within its folds a larger tale about the construction of a new Christianity in the Levant. Khater skillfully reveals what her story tells us about religious minorities in the Middle East, early modern cultural encounters between the West and the Middle East, and the relationship between gender, modernity, and religion.

Author : Kenneth Cragg
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664221823

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The Arab Christian by Kenneth Cragg Pdf

Centuries before the existence of the Islamic faith, there were Arabs who could be described as Christian. And there has been a Christian Arabism, an Arab Christianity, since Muhammad's day. Arab Christianity has survived Muslin dominance, and this enlightening book takes an in-depth look at its survival.

Author : Anthony O'Mahony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39076002698947

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Christianity in the Middle East by Anthony O'Mahony Pdf

This wide-ranging collection of papers describes aspects of the modern history and theology of Christianity in the Middle East .

Author : Mohammed Girma,Cristian Romocea
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784506483

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Christian Citizenship in the Middle East by Mohammed Girma,Cristian Romocea Pdf

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one. This collection of essays aims to reconcile this conflict of allegiance by looking at the biblical vision of citizenship and showing that Christians can live and work as citizens of the state without compromising their beliefs and make a constructive contribution to the life of the countries they live in. The contributors come from a range of prestigious academic and religious posts and provide analysis on a range of issues such as dual nationalism, patriotism and the increase of Islamic fundamentalism. An insightful look into the challenges religious minorities face in countries where they are a minority, these essays provide a peace-building and reconciliatory conclusion for readers to consider.

Author : Janine di Giovanni
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541756687

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The Vanishing by Janine di Giovanni Pdf

The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland. Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point, now tilted toward the end of Christianity in its historical homeland. Christians have fled the lands where their prophets wandered, where Jesus Christ preached, where the great Doctors and hierarchs of the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia. From Syria to Egypt, the cities of northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities, the birthplaces of prophets and saints, are losing any living connection to the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing, Janine di Giovanni has combined astonishing journalistic work to discover the last traces of small, hardy communities that have become wisely fearful of outsiders and where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid 360 degree threats. Di Giovanni's riveting personal stories and her conception of faith and hope are intertwined throughout the chapters. The book is a unique act of pre-archeology: the last chance to visit the living religion before all that will be left are the stones of the past.

Author : Anthony O'Mahony,Emma Loosley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135193713

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Eastern Christianity in the Modern Middle East by Anthony O'Mahony,Emma Loosley Pdf

The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity and the home to a number of Eastern Churches with millions of followers. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the various denominations in the modern Middle East and will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars and students studying theology, history and politics.

Author : Martin Tamcke,Claudia Rammelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1155531652

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Thinking about Christian Life in the Turmoil Times of the Middle East by Martin Tamcke,Claudia Rammelt Pdf

Author : Ian R. Smith
Publisher : Highland Books (TN)
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 1897913729

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A Case of Confidence by Ian R. Smith Pdf

Christians of the Middle East have rarely had it easy. In Byzantine or Crusading times they could be labelled schismatics, in Muslim times infidels, in colonial times lackeys. It is easy to conclude that the future for Arab Christianity is marginalisation through persecution and emigration. Ian Smith reports on pockets of spiritual vitality.

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307948922

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From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple Pdf

In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymple’s unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written travelogue, at once rich and scholarly, moving and courageous, overflowing with vivid characters and hugely topical insights into the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East.

Author : Jonathan Andrews
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783685998

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The Missiology behind the Story by Jonathan Andrews Pdf

In the twenty-first century the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has faced many challenges – conflict, changes of governments, terrorism, trauma – yet new opportunities have opened up for local churches to demonstrate the love of God and bless their communities. This book provides a fresh look at the theology driving Christian mission and at emerging ministry models by addressing ten aspects of missio Dei in the Middle Eastern context. Subjects such as church planting, discipleship, media, and peace building are introduced with their historical background, and contemporary stories and case studies of transformative work in the MENA region. As the book examines these topics we see how mission in the Middle East is no longer “from the West to the rest” but is now characterized as “from everywhere to everywhere.” All Christians will find in these contributions important biblical principles for their own context to follow Jesus Christ and bear witness to him. Readers are also reminded that hardship does not have to be an obstacle to the church living out the mission of God as salt and light, and there is much the global church can learn from the activities of Christians in MENA countries. While each chapter in this book focuses on a particular aspect of mission, churches must be holistic in transforming lives and to this end, societies, and this book is a gift from the MENA church to the rest of the body of Christ.

Author : United Church of God
Publisher : United Church of God
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557621477

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The Middle East in Bible Prophecy by United Church of God Pdf

The Arab Spring, the continuing Israel - Palestine conflict... why does the Middle East dominate the news headlines so often? One obvious answer is oil, the lifeblood of our modern world. The crucial importance of oil alone ensures that the Middle East will remain in the headlines for years. The Middle East is also the birthplace of the world's three great monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It has also been the battlefield for each religion—trying to control the territory they consider holy. Nowhere are these conflicts more obvious than in Israel, and specifically in Jerusalem. Whether you understand it or not, events in the Middle East are destined to affect the lives of every person on earth! Bible prophecy gives us the clues to understand what will happen. This ebook, "The Middle East in Bible Prophecy", will help you better understand the troubled history of the Middle East—and its tumultuous future. Chapters in this ebook: -- Introduction: Worlds in Turmoil -- The Middle East: Worlds in Collision -- The Sons of Abraham -- The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel -- The Four Empires of Daniel's Prophecies -- The Coming of Islam -- The Jews: From the Dispersion to the Modern Israeli State -- The Creation of the Modern Middle East -- A Rising Tide of Arab Nationalism -- Fundamentalist Islam Resurges -- Anger Mounts Following Gulf War -- Not Enemies Forever -- "Why Do People Hate Us So Much?" -- War and Peace in the Middle East -- What Is the "Abomination of Desolation"? -- Prophecy of an Arab Confederation -- What Should You Do? Inside this Bible Study Aid ebook: "It’s impossible to understand the present Middle East without a knowledge of the three great religions that emanate from the area—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These three faiths all trace their spiritual roots back to the same individual, Abraham." "However, conflict between Christians and Muslims has been a constant theme of history for 14 centuries." "Many other factors have contributed to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and subsequent terrorism, including the Israeli-Palestinian problem and the domination of American culture." "After so much death and destruction, and centuries of war and unrest in the Middle East, imagine what a difference the second coming of Jesus Christ will make."

Author : Christian C. Sahner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691203133

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Christian Martyrs Under Islam by Christian C. Sahner Pdf

A look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim relations during late antiquity and the early Islamic era How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Christians across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of the Arab conquerors and how small groups of individuals rejected this faith through dramatic acts of resistance, including apostasy and blasphemy. Using previously untapped sources in a range of Middle Eastern languages, Christian Sahner introduces an unknown group of martyrs who were executed at the hands of Muslim officials between the seventh and ninth centuries CE. Found in places as diverse as Syria, Spain, Egypt, and Armenia, they include an alleged descendant of Muhammad who converted to Christianity, high-ranking Christian secretaries of the Muslim state who viciously insulted the Prophet, and the children of mixed marriages between Muslims and Christians. Sahner argues that Christians never experienced systematic persecution under the early caliphs, and indeed, they remained the largest portion of the population in the greater Middle East for centuries after the Arab conquest. Still, episodes of ferocious violence contributed to the spread of Islam within Christian societies, and memories of this bloodshed played a key role in shaping Christian identity in the new Islamic empire. Christian Martyrs under Islam examines how violence against Christians ended the age of porous religious boundaries and laid the foundations for more antagonistic Muslim-Christian relations in the centuries to come.

Author : Andreas Bandak,Mikkel Bille
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004249226

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Politics of Worship in the Contemporary Middle East by Andreas Bandak,Mikkel Bille Pdf

In Sainthood in Fragile States, a wide range of social scientists explore the contested role of sainthood in the contemporary Middle East. By expanding the notion of sainthood to cover both the religious and secular ways of dealing with extraordinary events, people and things, the volume offers new insights into the way sainthood is embedded in various levels of everyday life, as well as national and international politics. The case studies highlight how fragility as a central aspect of sainthood is a productive force that often consolidates tales of the extraordinary, and is also the source of contesting social identities. Contributors include: Andreas Bandak, Mikkel Bille, Jürgen Frembgen, Sune Haugbolle, Angie Heo, Daniella Kuzmanovic, Edith Szanto, and Pnina Werbner.