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Evangelicals and Israel - The Story of American Christian Zionism (Hardcover)
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Evangelicals and Israel - The Story of American Christian Zionism (Hardcover)
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This is a study of Christian Zionism and the ways that religion and
politics converge in American evangelicals' love and support for
Israel and the Jewish people. Because of evangelicals' influence on
the Middle East policies of George W. Bush, this is a topic of
immense current importance. It bears on some of the most difficult
and dangerous global issues -- not only the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict, but also the relationship between the West and the
Islamic world.
Christian Zionism is often said to stem from the belief that the
Jews must return to their ancestral home in the Holy Land as a
precondition for Christ's return. Observers also point to the
evangelicals' frequent citation of Genesis 12: 3, in which God
promises that He will bless those who bless Abraham and his
descendants, and curse those who curse them. Spector shows,
however, that conservative Christians' motives for supporting the
Jewish state are much more complex and diverse than previous
studies have noted. Among these motives are gratitude to the Jews
for contributing the theological foundations of Christianity, and
for being the source of the prophets and Jesus; remorse for the
Church's history of anti-Semitism; and fear that God will judge the
nations at the end of time on the basis of how they treated the
Jewish people. Moreover, Israel is for evangelicals God's prophetic
clock, irrefutable proof that prophecy is true and is coming to
pass in our lifetime. Some are also motivated by theologically
based enmity towards Islam, seeing Arabs and other Muslims as
Satan's agents in disrupting God's plan for the salvation of all
humankind.
Spector draws on information from Christian Zionist websites
andpublications, journalistic and academic sources, and a hundred
original interviews. He has spoken with evangelicals in Jerusalem
and across the U.S., and with Israeli and American officials,
including current and former White House advisers. He has also
talked with people who studied the Bible with Bush in Midland,
Texas. Spector's conclusions will correct much speculation about
the president's personal faith, and about evangelical influence on
American policy in the Middle East, all the while providing the
fullest and most nuanced account of the theology behind Christian
Zionism to date.
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