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What Hath Jerusalem to Do with Mecca? Evangelicals Respond to “A Common Word”

Sep 30th, 2009 by Ken Keathley

This year the Evangelical Theological Society holds its annual meeting in New Orleans on Nov. 18-20, and one session warrants special attention.  On Wednesday, Nov.18, 8 - 11 am, J P Moreland will chair a panel discussion of A Common Word, with John Piper and Al Mohler among the participants (a schedule of the program can be found here).  
What is A Common Word?  In October 11, 2007, 138 Islamic clerics and scholars from 43 nations issued a joint statement called A … [Read More]

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Augustine for the 21st Century (3): What Can We Learn from Augustine’s Apologetic Strategy?

Aug 23rd, 2009 by Bruce Ashford

Augustine teaches 21st century evangelicals how to defend the faith in their respective contexts. Among the many lessons we may learn from him, one is central: We as Christians must “out-narrate the narrators.” In the face of the narratives emerging from naturalist, pantheist, and Muslim worldviews, we must communicate the biblical narrative in such a way as to show that it alone makes sense of the world.
Like Augustine, we must expose the flaws in competing … [Read More]

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Global Context (NAME): The Arabs in History

Aug 4th, 2009 by Bruce Ashford
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This series of posts deals with the global context in its many dimensions-historical, social, cultural, political, economic, and religious. We will provide book notices, book reviews, and brief essays on these topics. We hope that you will find this series helpful as you live and bear witness in a complex and increasingly hyper-connected world.
Bernard Lewis’ The Arabs in History is was first published in 1958, revised in 1993, and is still fruitful for the beginning … [Read More]

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Global Context: Europe, Islam, and Christianity

Apr 12th, 2009 by Bruce Ashford
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God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam and Europe’s Religious Crisis
Reviewed By: Bruce Riley Ashford
 Entire forests have been chopped down in order to promulgate the literature that has been written on the religious crisis in Europe, including especially the secularization of Europeans and influx of Islamic immigrants. Bat Y’eor, in Eurabia (2005), argued that Europe is being subverted by Islamic hostility toward the very virtues, values, and vision of Europe herself. Bruce Bawer, in While Europe Slept (2007) … [Read More]

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mar 15th, 2009 by Bruce Ashford
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Reviewed by: Bruce Riley Ashford
If you are interested in a slim little novel that is both informative and inflammatory, you have found your book. Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is about one young Pakistani’s initial infatuation with America and his ensuing disillusionment. It is an allegory meant to instruct Americans about the global community’s perceptions of their country.
The hero is Changez, a young Pakistani from Lahore. Hamid frames the story by means of … [Read More]

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Global Context (CA-Afghanistan): The Kite Runner

Feb 8th, 2009 by Bruce Ashford
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Global Context (Central Asia-Afghanistan): The Kite Runner
This series of posts deals with the global context in its historical, social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and religious dimensions in particular. We will provide book notices, book reviews, and brief essays on these topics. We hope that you will find this series helpful as you live and bear witness in a complex and increasingly hyper-connected world.
Khaled Hosseini’s stunning debut novel is the  masterfully told story of two boys … [Read More]

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Global Context (International): The Crisis of Islam

Jan 18th, 2009 by Bruce Ashford
The Crisis of Islam

This series of posts deals with the global context in its historical, social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and religious dimensions in particular. We will provide book notices, book reviews, and brief essays on these topics. We hope that you will find this series helpful as you live and bear witness in an increasingly complex and hyper-connected world.

Bernard Lewis is the doyen of Middle Eastern studies. In this slim little volume, he provides the reader with … [Read More]

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Global Context (International): The Clash of Civilizations

Jan 11th, 2009 by Bruce Ashford
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

This series of posts deals with the global context in its historical, social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and religious dimensions in particular. We will provide book notices, book reviews, and brief essays on these topics. We hope that you will find this series helpful as you live and bear witness in an increasingly complex and hyper-connected world.
Here’s a tip: If you care anything at all about global issues, and you haven’t read Samuel Huntington’s The … [Read More]

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Global Context Series (South Asia): Freedom at Midnight

Jan 5th, 2009 by Bruce Ashford
Freedom at Midnight

Editor’s Note: This series of posts deals with the global context in its historical, social, cultural, political, economic, demographic, and religious dimensions. We will provide book notices, book reviews, and brief essays on these topics. We hope that you will find this series helpful as you live and bear witness in an increasingly complex and hyper-connected world.
Book: Freedom at Midnight
Region: South Asia
Countries: India & Pakistan
Length: 572 pages
Difficulty: Intermediate
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, … [Read More]

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Guest Blog by Central Asia RL: Biblical Foundations and Guidelines for Contextualization (Pt 4)

Sep 12th, 2008 by Bruce Ashford

Guest Blog: Biblical Foundations and Guidelines for Contextualization (Pt 4)
Editor’s Note: This guest blog is written by the IMB’s Regional Leader for Central Asia. It is a six part series, giving the biblical foundations and guidelines for contextualization, and making application to Christian ministry in the Muslim world. This series will appear as a chapter in the forthcoming book “Look What God is Doing in the Muslim World.”
Contextualization Guidelines
How do we apply these principles to … [Read More]

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