Faculty Publication: why do some Muslims convert to Christianity?

Alex Miller, lecturer in church history and theology for NETS, has recently published an article analyzing studies on the reasons given by individuals from Muslim backgrounds regarding why they convert to Christianity.

The article can be found HERE, and was published in the Journal of Asian Mission.

Who are the Arab Evangelicals in the Holy Land?

Here is the second video for the Holy Land Connection (HLC), with our seminary president Azar Ajaj and hosted by Rani Espanioly.

Who are the Arab Christians?

Alex Miller, lecturer in Church History and Theology, recently discussed the question of who are the Arab Christians with Rani Espanioly for his ministry SALAM in the Holy Land. Here is the video:

Azar Ajaj on the Van Dyck translation of the Bible into Arabic

Azar Ajaj, our seminary president, has recently published his article titled "The Van Dyck Translation: The American Mission Board and the Translation of the Bible into Arabic" in Volume 11:1 of St Francis Magazine.

The article is about how the main Arabic-language Bible, still in wide use today, came into being.

Click HERE for the article.

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)

Faculty Publication: The Bricolage of Global Anglicanism

This church review by Alex Miller of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in San Antonio, Texas, was published in Anglican and Episcopal History in March of 2014.

Holy Trinity is a church belonging to the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, itself a member of both the Church of Nigeria (Anglican) and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), which calls itself a province-in-formation.

Read about the origins of this parish as it hived from Christ Episcopal Church (San Antonio) and incorporated multiple different Anglican influences into its worship.

Download the PDF from academia.edu or click here: Miller_AEH_San_Antonio-libre.

Azar Ajaj and Phil Sumpter on the Convention of Evangelical Churches in Israel (CECI)

We are happy to now publish our third Mary's Well Occasional Paper of 2014. Written by Azar Ajaj and Phil Sumpter, it offers an account of the origin and contemporary situation of the Convention of Evangelical Churches in Israel (CECI), or as it is commonly called in in Arabic, al majma3.

Here are the first sentences:

In 2005, representatives from five Christian denominations in Israel—Baptists, Assemblies of God, Open Brethren and Church of the Nazarene (the latter including a smaller denomination within them, the Christian Missionary Alliance)—formed a coalition in order to make a bid with the Israeli government to gain recognition as an “official religion,” a unified entity entitled to the same rights and responsibilities as Israel’s other officially recognized religions. The purpose for seeking such a status was primarily practical, for non-recognition by the government inhibits the day-to-day functioning of individual congregations. 

Click HERE to download and read the entire PDF of volume 3:3 of Mary's Well Occasional Papers.