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DYING IN THE LAND OF PROMISE
PALESTINE AND PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANITY FROM PENTECOST TO 2000
Donald E Wagner
Dying in the Land of Promise presents
the reader with two simultaneous narratives, the dominant of which
is the story of Palestinian
Christianity. The narrative is set within the context of Palestine’s
changing political and religious history. Gradually the secondary
narrative overtakes the Christian narrative, particularly during
the last 125 years with the rise of nationalism, Zionism, the triumph
of Israel, and the dramatic decline of Palestinian Christianity
in the Holy Land.
Written for the non-specialist and
geared towards a
Western audience, the volume challenges traditional assumptions
articulated in the mainstream media concerning the Christians of
Palestine and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The history of Palestinian
Christianity is tragic and inspiring as it calls for a profund and
immediate response from Western Christians and all concerned friends
to a communitiy that is truly an endangered species in the ‘land
of promise’, given the present rates of emigration, economic
blight, and an all too delayed resolution to the political conflict
in the Holy Land today.
The Revd Dr Donald E Wagner is an ordained Presbyterian clergymanwho
presently serves as Associate Professor of Religion at North Park
University in Chicago, where he is also the Executive Director of
the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. In addition, he has served
for the past ten years as the Director of Evangelicals for Middle
East Understanding.
His previous books include Anxious
for Armageddon (1995), Peace or Armageddon (1993), and All in the
Name of the Bible (1988). During the 1980s he was National Director
of the US Palestine Human Rights Campaign.
‘Don Wagner provides an elegant
and comprehensive overview of the Christian communities in the Holy
Land. It is a tour de force in one volume.’ Revd Professor
Michael Prior
NEW UPDATED EDITION
Format: 216 x 135 mm 280 pages approx
paperback £15.00
ISBN 1 901764 22 2 2003
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