1st Edition
Identity and Vocation of Christian Minority Communities A Conversation with Religious Sources
1. The Church as Minority in the Context of Islam Bernhard J.G. Reitsma 2. Reading 1 Peter in Constructing Minority Identity: Living as a Christian Minority in an Islamic Context Kar Yong Lim 3. Suffering as an Integral Part of Mission in 1 Peter Myriam Klinker-De Klerck 4. Being a Christian Minority and Creating a Soft Difference: Perspectives on 1 Peter from a Social Identity Complexity Perspective Mofreh Abdelmasih and Jacobus (Kobus) Kok 5. Identity, Persecution, Pilgrimage, and Exile: The Role of 1 Peter in Shaping the Discipleship Journey of Believers of Muslim Backgrounds through the Come Follow Me Course Pat Brittenden and Parsa Zarin Ghalam 6. Through the Eyes of Christian Minorities: A Reading of 1 Peter 2 Erika van Nes-Visscher 7. Two Jewish Minorities in the Diaspora; The Targum and Yefet ben Eli on Song of Songs Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman 8. When the Margins Become The Centre: Jews, Statehood, and Belonging Jessica Roitman 9. Aphrahat and the Jews: An Early Church Perspective on Being a Persecuted Minority Nathan Witkamp 10. Arab Christians: A Peculiar Minority Paradigm Elias El Halabi 11. Identity, Witness, and Service of Protestants in the Middle East: The Perspectives of Hovhannes Aharonian, Wanis Semaan, and George Sabra Wilbert van Saane and George AlSahili 12. Sunni Islamic Perspectives On Muslim Minorities in the West Razi H. Quadir 13. Redemptive Suffering and Sectarian Hostility: Shiʿi Islam as a Minority Faith Ahab Bdaiwi 14. Blessing or Curse: The Identity of Christian Minority Communities from a Social Scientific Perspective Joke van Saane 15. Resident Aliens: Theological Reflections on the Identity and Vocation of the Church as Minority in the Context of Islam Bernhard J.G.Reitsma and Rahman Yakubu
Biography
Bernhard J.G. Reitsma is professor of Church and Theology with a special focus on Islam at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and head of the Graduate school. He is a minister with a special assignment in the Protestant Church of the Netherlands.
Erika van Nes-Visscher is a researcher connected to The Church in the Context of Islam Foundation.
