Jerusalem through Evangelical Eyes: Nineteenth-Century Western Encounters with Palestinian Christianity
Journal: Jerusalem Quarterly
Year: 2021

This essay explores Western attitudes to Christianity in Palestine as recorded in the accounts of nineteenth-century travelers, especially British Evangelical Protestants, to Jerusalem.Nineteenth-century Evangelicals shared a hostility towards non-Protestant Christian denominations, an unwavering belief in the Bible as a historically infallible document, and an attitude towards Palestine and the Jewish people that led them towards what is now recognized as Christian Zionism.In Jerusalem, the ess