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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > General
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. 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? 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. 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.
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