Living among the Breakage: Contextual Theology-making and ex-Muslim Christians, by Alex Miller

Our institute is proud to share with you Living among the Breakage: Contextual Theology-making and ex-Muslim Christians, written by Dr. Duane Alexander Miller. This book is based on his doctoral research carried out through New College at the University of Edinburgh.

From the publisher's page:

Around the world people are leaving Islam for Christianity in unprecedented numbers. This book seeks to look into the world of some of these converts, trying to discern the shape of their newfound faith. Why do they convert? What challenges do they face? And ultimately, what do they in their own complex and sometimes difficult circumstances claim to have understood about God that, while in Islam, they had not? In other words, what is the content of their contextual theology? In seeking to answer these questions, Miller looks into the world of an unintentional church plant in the Arab world consisting of believers from a Muslim background, visits with groups of Iranian converts in the diaspora, and examines the written testimonies of still other converts. In a world where Muslim-Christian relations are increasingly important and sometimes tendentious, this book examines the lived faith and contextual theology of people who have chosen to leave Islam and embrace Christianity.

Buy it at the publisher's website or Amazon. 

Faculty Publication: Islam and the Last Day

NETS faculty have contributed to a newly published book.

The volume is titled: Islam and the Last Day: Christian Perspectives on Islamic Eschatology, edited by Peter Riddell and Brent Neely, our seminary vice president.

The book contains an article by Duane Alexander Miller on the eschatological views of ex-Muslim Christians and one by Brent Neely on the Muslim Antichrist figure, the Dajjal.

Other topics covered in the book include articles on Sunni apocalyptic traditions, the Shi'ite Mahdi, Ahmadiyya eschatological thought, women and Islamic eschatology, the "torments of the grave" concept, eschatology in Arabic and Malay texts, and so on.

Here is a link to the Amazon page for the publication:

Islam and the Last Day (MST Press, 2014)