Living Among The Breakage Contextual Theologymaking And Exmuslim Christians Duane Alexander Miller by Duane Alexander Miller 9781498284189, 9781498284165, 9781498284172, 1498284183, 1498284167, 1498284175 instant download after payment.

Around the world people are leaving Islam for Christianity in unprecedented numbers. This book seeks to look into the world of some of these converts, trying to discern the shape of their newfound faith. Why do they convert? What challenges do they face? And ultimately, what do they in their own complex and sometimes difficult circumstances claim to have understood about God that, while in Islam, they had not? In other words, what is the content of their contextual theology? In seeking to answer these questions, Miller looks into the world of an unintentional church plant in the Arab world consisting of believers from a Muslim background, visits with groups of Iranian converts in the diaspora, and examines the written testimonies of still other converts. In a world where Muslim-Christian relations are increasingly important and sometimes tendentious, this book examines the lived faith and contextual theology of people who have chosen to leave Islam and embrace Christianity. ""Miller has provided us with frontline research in an emerging sector of World Christianity--the indigenous theology of Christians from a Muslim background.World Christianity, Muslim-Christian relations, conversion studies, or missiology--if any of these are your area of interest, this book is for you.If the mission of God in our world or, perhaps, 'frontier theology' is your concern, Living among the Breakageis for you.In these pages, Miller engages the theology of the globally emerging churches of Christians from a Muslim background (CMB).He approaches the task from several creative angles: field work amongst Iranian diaspora congregations; analysis of CMB books, poetry, and testimonial literature; and the case study of a semi-covert CMB congregation in the Arabophone Middle East.What Miller has done here is compelling in its creative simplicity.Living among the Breakageis a work of contextualization, but a 'contextualization from within': this is a disciplined effort at eliciting, ordering, a