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Evangelizing Lebanon : Baptists, missions, and the question of cultures / Melanie Trexler.
Van Pelt Library BV3210.L4 T74 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trexler, Melanie, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southern Baptist Convention--Missions--Lebanon.
- Southern Baptist Convention.
- Missions, American--Lebanon.
- Missions, American.
- Evangelistic work--Lebanon.
- Evangelistic work.
- Evangelistic work--Baptists.
- Christianity and culture--Lebanon.
- Christianity and culture.
- Missions.
- Lebanon.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In 1893, Said Jureidini, an Arabic-speaking Christian from the Ottoman Empire, experienced an evangelical conversion while attending the Chicago World's Fair. Two years later he founded the first Baptist church in modern-day Lebanon. For financial support, he aligned his fledgling church with American Landmark Baptists and, later, Southern Baptists. By doing so, Jureidini linked the fate of Baptists in Lebanon with those in the United States. In Evangelizing Lebanon, Melanie E. Trexler explores the complex, reflexive relationship between Baptist missionaries from the States and Baptists in Lebanon. Trexler pays close attention to the contexts surrounding the relationships, the consequences, and the theologies inherent to missionary praxis, carefully profiling the perspectives of both the missionaries and the Lebanese Baptists.
- Contents:
- Landmarkers in the Holy Land: Ottomans, landmarkers, and the formation of a Southern Baptist mission in the Holy Land, 1893-1919
- Building a Baptist community in Beirut: Said Jureidini and the arrival of the Near East Baptist mission, 1900-1948
- Reform, resistance, and rebellion: the NEBM program of advance and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948-1968
- A mission to Muslims: from "gospel bomb" to dialogue, 1969-1974
- Reconciliation: the Lebanese civil war, U.S. Marines, and Hizbullah, 1975-1986
- Breaking the ties that bind: redefining the Lebanese Baptist community, 1987-2011
- Conclusion: evangelizing Lebanon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Trexler, Melanie, 1982- author. Evangelizing Lebanon.
- ISBN:
- 9781481302593
- 1481302590
- OCLC:
- 937368061
- Publisher Number:
- 99969104729
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