American Holiness churches in the Holy Land 1890-2010
Subtitle: mission to the Jews, Arabs and Armenians
By: Paul Schmidgall
Series: Edition Israelogie (EDIS) -- Bd. 4; Edition Israelogie (EDIS) -- Bd. 4.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783631635063
Subjects: Millennialism; Israel (Christian theology); Christian and Missionary Alliance; Missions; Church of the Nazarene
Description: "The American Holiness Churches Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA) and the Church of the Nazarene (CoN) have been active for more than 120 years in the Holy Land among the Jewish, Arab, and Armenian communities. The author offers a detailed examination of the underlying theological force (millenarianism) of their endeavor and provides a detailed report of the activities of their 250 workers in the Holy Land over more than one hundred years. The activities of these two Holiness Churches as important representatives of the second largest Christian community worldwide, i.e. Evangelicalism, were impressive as far as sincerity, enthusiasm, methology, and reached communities was concerned; their social, educational, economical, and political impact on the recipient cultures in the Holy Land is still felt today."--Cover, p. [4].
Notes: Originally presented as the author's dissertation (Ph. D.)--Hebrew University, 1997.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 183-209).
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. The Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA); title: ch. 1. CMA - American Holiness Church: origin and expansion; title: ch. 2. CMA - premillennial-dispensational theology of its leaders; title: ch. 3. CMA - Holy Land; title: pt. II. The Church of the Nazarene (CoN); title: ch. 4. CoN in American and Millenarianism; title: ch. 5. CoN - Holy Land (1921-2010); title: Conclusion.