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Evangelizing Lebanon - Baptists, Missions, and the Question of Cultures (Hardcover)
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Evangelizing Lebanon - Baptists, Missions, and the Question of Cultures (Hardcover)
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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 laterhe 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
theologiesinherent to missionary praxis, carefully profiling the
perspectives of both the missionaries and the Lebanese Baptists.
Trexler thus discovers a fraught mutuality at work. U.S.
missionaries presented new models of church planting, evangelism,
and educational opportunities that empowered the Lebanese Baptists
to accomplish personal and communal goals. In turn, Lebanese
Baptists prompted missionaries to rethink their ideas about
mission, Muslim-Christian relations, and even American foreign
policy in the region. But Trexler also reveals how missionaries'
efforts to evangelize Muslims came to threaten the very security of
the Lebanese Baptists. Trexler shows how Baptist missionary
theology and praxis in Lebanon had more to do with bolstering an
insular Baptist identity in the U.S. than it did with engaging in
interfaith relationships with Lebanese Muslims. Ironically,
American Baptists' efforts to help ultimately spunoutof control and
led to unintended consequences. Trexler's study of Baptists in
Lebanon serves as a warning for missional identity everywhere,
Baptist or not: missionary insistence on a narrow and politically
useful definition of what it means to be Christian can both aid and
undermine, build and destabilize.
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