Issue 8:4 of St Francis Magazine

We are glad to let you all know that Volume 8:4 of St Francis Magazine is now available. SFM is an online journal dedicated to exploring Christian witness in Islamic contexts.

D. Alexander Miller, our seminary's lecturer in Church History and Theology, was the guest editor for the issue. Click to read his letter from the issue editor.

Mr. Miller also interviewed a veteran missionary involved in church planting among Muslims in India. Visit the website to read the interview.

Also included in this issue of SFM is a book review by Azar Ajaj, our lecturer in Biblical and Pastoral Studies. Click to read his review of Emir Rishawi's A Struggle that led to Conversion.

To download the complete PDF of isssue 8:4 click HERE.

BTh classes for Fall of 2012

For our Arabic-language BTh course we will be offering the following classes at our Nazareth campus in the Fall semester of 2012:

Pastoral Epistles

Peacemaking in Christianity

Church History II

Mary's Well Occasional Papers 1:3, by Azar Ajaj

In this third of our Mary's Well Occasional Papers Azar Ajaj, who lectures in Biblical and Pastoral Studies at Nazareth Seminary, explains how the debate about eschatology is not merely academic in the context of evangelical Christianity in Israel. Included in this paper is a useful summary of the two positions--dispensationalism and Covenant Theology--as well as some personal reflections from his many years of experience in the Holy Land.

Ajaj, Azar. 2012. 'Brother against Brother: Covenant and Dispensationalist Eschatologies in the Context of Israeli Evangelicalism' in Mary's Well Occasional Papers, Vol 1:3, July.

Download the PDF HERE.

Previous occassional papers are here (1:1) and here (1:2).

Malcolm White on the early Arab Protestant Pioneers

The Rev. Malcolm White, formerly with the CMS and pastor of English-Speaking Anglican Congregation (ESAC) at the Church of the Redeemer in Amman, has recently published this fine article in St Francis Magazine. The article focuses on the work of some of the very first Arab Protestant ministers and evangelists in the Trans-Jordan. It is a welcome addition to our knowledge regarding the first indigenous evangelicals in the area.

White, Malcolm. "Anglican Pioneers of the Ottoman Period: sketches from the CMS archives of some Arab lives connected with the early days of the Diocese of Jerusalem" in St Francis Magazine (8:2), April 2012.

Thank you Malcolm for your hard work in investigating the lives of some of the early evangelicals in the region.

المحاضرة التاسعة: اوغسطينس ومدينة الله 1

Introduction to Philosophy
Lecture Nine: Augustine and the City of God 1

المحاضرة التاسعة: اوغسطينس ومدينة الله 1

المحاضرة الثامنة: اوغسطينس وحياته

Introduction to Philosophy/Muqaddamat al falsafe
May 3rd, 2012
المحاضرة الثامنة: اوغسطينس وحياته

Schedule Update: Fall 2012 for BTh students

SEMESTER DATES AND CALENDAR

BTh Fall Semester, 2012

Classes begin 17th September

Classes finish 14th December

Sabbatical courses

30th September - 27th October

2013

Latin Easter: 31st March

Orthodox Easter: 5th May