Baptist Engagement with Islam

From Helwys to Today

Clinton Bennett (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

437 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-4438-9 (ISBN)

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This book surveys Baptist engagement with Islam beginning with Thomas Helwys (d. 1616), co-founder of the world's fifth largest Christian denomination, and ending with contemporary contributions. Baptists discussed include Jimmy Carter, Harvey Cox, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Rick Warren, and missionaries working in the Indian subcontinent. The book describes engagement by Baptists in the USA, the UK, the Indian subcontinent, Lebanon and Georgia and the involvement of the Baptist World Alliance. Some Baptists have fueled Islamophobia. Others stress common ground with Islam and call for mutual respect. Women Baptist missionaries pioneered a more personalized, less confrontational approach to engagement with Muslims. The survey highlights ecumenical partnership, Biblical foundations, defense of religious freedom, local initiatives, and contextualization of the gospel into the Muslim milieux. It is the first detailed, comprehensive study of this engagement.

Clinton Bennett is a specialist in the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations who is active in interfaith dialogue through the National Council of Churches USA. Dr Bennett has taught at several Colleges in the UK and USA, most recently at the State University of New York at New Paltz (2008-2024). A missionary in Bangladesh (1979-1982), he has co-pastored two congregations, served as a University Chaplain, and was executive secretary for interfaith relations at the British Council of Churches (1987-1992). A graduate of Manchester, Birmingham, and Oxford Universities, he received his PhD from Birmingham in 1990 for a thesis published as Victorian Images of Islam (1992). A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS) and of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI) he is the author of over a dozen books. Ordained as a Baptist minister in 1978, Dr Bennett is now a priest of the Old Catholic Apostolic Church and a brother in its Order of Saints Francis and Clare (OSFC) but remains a member of the Alliance of Baptists.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-0364-4438-4 / 1036444384
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-4438-9 / 9781036444389
Zustand	Neuware