Volume 30 recounts the eighty-year-long history of the RCAs mission work in the Middle East, written by a missionary who has spent decades in the Arabian Gulf. Including instructive discussion of missiological themes as well as the narrative of the churchs daily work in Arabia, this volume is not only of denominational interest but will also provide important insights for mission students and those actively involved in a mission field.
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A comprehensive history of the Reformed Church mid-east work,
By rgasero@aol.com (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Arabian Mission's Story: In Search of Abraham's Other Son (Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America) (Paperback)
This is a definitive history of the Reformed Church in America's work in the Arabian Gulf beginning with the foundation established by Samuel Zwemer and James Cantine in 1889. Written by a worker in that field and a resident of the middle east, it offers a wonderful survey of Islam-Christian relations as well as Christian mission work in the area in general as bonuses. The volume has made excellent use of archival sources as well as interviews with many retired missionaries.Scudder offers excellent insights in this historical survey about the role of mission work as well as insights into the role of the church in the middle east in light of the current political situation. The volume's particular focus is on the educational, medical, and evangelistic work of the Reformed Church in America. That mission effort concentrated primarily in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Other related volumes such as Grace in the Gulf, by Jeanette Boersma, Sharifa, by Cornelia Dalenberg, and Pioneers in the Arab World, by Dorothy Van Ess are memoirs and autobiographies. Scudder examines the whole of the Reformed church effort with a careful and critical eye. The volume includes two useful charts: one offers about an 80 page historical timeline of events in western history, the middle east, Arabia, the church, and the mission field from 484 AD to 1994; the other offers a year by year summary of mission appointments and distribution by mission stations in Basrah, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, and Amarah. This volume is an excellent introduction for anyone who would like to understand the role of the Christian mission in Islam in general and the work of the Reformed Church in America in particular.
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Heroes of modernization in the Middle East: Here they are!,
By J. Gresham "Jon, the CivilSociety and MultiSm... (Montgomery, AL usa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Arabian Mission's Story: In Search of Abraham's Other Son (Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America) (Paperback)
This is an extremely well-documented history of modern Christian activity in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. The extensive bibliography and references make it a great resource on the modernization of the Arabian peninsula, Iraq and Iran.
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Middle East, United States, New York, Board of Foreign Missions, Paul Harrison, Dorothy Scudder, Lew Scudder, New Brunswick, General Synod, Samuel Zwemer, Wells Thorns, New Jersey, American Mission Hospital, Stanley Mylrea, James Cantine, John Buteyn, United Mission, Arab Gulf, Harold Storm, Harvey Staal, Joyce Dunham, General Program Council, South India, Board of World Mission, Jay Kapenga New!
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