Christ at the checkpoint
Subtitle: theology in the service of justice and peace
By: edited by Paul Alexander
Series: Pentecostals, peacemaking, and social justice series; Pentecostals, peacemaking, and social justice series
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781610972307
Subjects: Controversial literature; Congresses; Judaism (Christian theology); Christian Zionism; Peace; Arab-Israeli conflict
Description: What does the evangelical church in Palestine think about the land, the end times, the Holocaust, peace in the Middle East, loving enemies, Christian Zionism, the State of Israel, and the possibilities of a Palestinian state? For the first time ever, Palestinian evangelicals along with evangelicals from the United States and Europe have converged to explore these and other crucial topics. Although Jews, Muslims, and Christians from a variety of traditions have participated in discussions and work regarding Israel and Palestine, this book presents theological, biblical, and political perspectives and arguments from Palestinian evangelicals who are praying, hoping, and working for a just peace for both Israelis and Palestinians. Note: the majority of papers are anti-Zionist, oppose Christian Zionism--except Darrel Bock's paper--and the voice of Israeli Messianics was suppressed at the conference.
Notes: Proceedings of the "Christ at the Checkpoint conference organized and hosted by Palestinian Christians, held in Bethlehem in March 2010 .
Table of contents: title: Palestinian Christians in the shadow of Christian Zionism / Alex Awad; title: The Holocaust and the evangelical movement : from German pietism to Palestinian Christians / Manfred W. Kohl; title: A Palestinian Christian evangelical response to the Holocaust / Sami Awad; title: Theology pof the land : from a land of strife to a land of reconciliation / Salim Munayer; title: What can Pentecostals and Charismatics do for peace with justice in Israel and Palestine / Paul Alexander; title: Strange freedom : existential and social liberation from a Christian perspective / Mae Elise Cannon; title: The New Testament and the land / Gary M. Burge; title: The land in light of the reconciliation of Christ : a dispensationalist view / Darrell Bock; title: The ethical responsibility of the American Church toward Palestinian Christians / Tony Campolo; title: Evangelicals, Islam, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Colin Chapman; title: Peaceful or violent eschatology : a Palestinian Christian reading of the Psalter / Yohanna Katanacho; title: Contecxtual Palestinian theology as it deals with realities on the ground / Mitri Raheb; title: Where do we go from here? / Jonathan Kuttab.