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Miss 18: Doing Mission with the Muslims

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Area D · Principles and Practice of Mission Miss. · Miss 18

Doing Mission with the Muslims

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Course description

This course offers a sampled survey of the vast field of Christian-Muslim relations where the focus is on how the two communities perceive missionary work. The vantage point is Christian and the analysis is done within a Christian theological framework. However, the Churches' experiences of systematic efforts at evangelism among Muslims are supplemented by the personal witness by converts from Islam, and the Islamic concept of apostasy (riddah) is also explained briefly. However, this course does not tackle larger issues such as a Christian theology of religions or the meaning and end of interfaith dialogue.

Course objectives

To deepen the student's understanding of the dynamics of Christian- Muslim interaction, with special focus on the Churches' experience of witness in Muslim societies. To help the student analyze the different approaches to Islam as adopted by missionaries in various cultural contexts, e.g. whether the emphasis has been on evangelism or on interfaith dialogue. To initiate a reflection on the social and legal consequences of conversion from Islam.

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This course should provide

A survey of encounters and interactions between the Church and the Muslim world through the history; A stock-taking of insights gained from centuries of Christian witness among Muslims; A good understanding of the process which some converts from Islam have gone through; A grasp of the Islamic understanding of mission (da'wah) and of apostasy (riddah); The particular challenges to Christian minorities witnessing to a Muslim majority society.

Teaching Method

Lectures and presentation of seminar papers. Special attention given to the methodology of case studies.

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How would you compare Christian and Muslim accounts of an encounter while respecting differences within both communities? Distinguish theological judgement, historical evidence and assumptions requiring careful review.

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Miss 18 Doing Mission with the Muslims

Amazing Grace Biblical Seminary — M.Th. Missiology

Area D: Principles and Practice of Mission Miss. 18: Doing Mission with the Muslims College Examined 2 Credits Course Description: This course offers a sampled survey of the vast field of Christian-Muslim relations where the focus is on how the two communities perceive missionary work. The vantage point is Christian and the analysis is done within a Christian theological framework. However, the Churches' experiences of systematic efforts at evangelism among Muslims are supplemented by the personal witness by converts from Islam, and the Islamic concept of apostasy (riddah) is also explained briefly. However, this course does not tackle larger issues such as a Christian theology of religions or the meaning and end of interfaith dialogue. This course should provide: A survey of encounters and interactions between the Church and the Muslim world through the history; A stock-taking of insights gained from centuries of Christian witness among Muslims; A good understanding of the process which some converts from Islam have gone through; A grasp of the Islamic understanding of mission (da'wah) and of apostasy (riddah); The particular challenges to Christian minorities witnessing to a Muslim majority society. Objectives: To deepen the student's understanding of the dynamics of Christian- Muslim interaction, with special focus on the Churches' experience of witness in Muslim societies. To help the student analyze the different approaches to Islam as adopted by missionaries in various cultural contexts, e.g. whether the emphasis has been on evangelism or on interfaith dialogue. To initiate a reflection on the social and legal consequences of conversion from Islam. Teaching Method: Lectures and presentation of seminar papers. Special attention given to the methodology of case studies. Course Outline: The history of Christian-Muslim relations, as reported by both sides e.g. Akbar, crusades The legacy of Christian missionaries, from Abu Qurra and Lullus to Martyn and Cragg The testimonies of Muslim converts: Sanneh, Amjad-Ali, Nazir-Ali and others Christian mission and Islamic da'wah Christology and Scripture - two controversial aspects of Christian dogma from an Islamic viewpoint The Islamic law (shari'ah) on religious freedom and conversion to Christianity The roles of Jesus and Mary in Islam and Christianity. The challenges of Islamic terrorism. Christian witness from below - the experience of minority churches in the Muslim world Islam and Da'wa in western countries, e.g. Britain, France Germany etc. Selected Bibliography: Du Jarric, Pierre. Akbar and the Jesuits. An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar, translated by C.H. Payne. London: George Routledge & Sons, Broadway House. 1926 Reprint Delhi: Low Price Publications 1999. Engineer, Asghar Ali. Secularism Democracy and Muslim Experience in India: Understanding Communalism and Terrorism. Hope India Publications 2010. Engineer, Asghar Ali. A Living Faith: My Quest for Peace, Harmony and Social Change. Orient Blackswan 2012. Jackson, Paul. The Muslims of India. Theological Publications in India: Bangalore 2001. Khalil, Mohammad Hassan. Islam and the Fate of Others. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Lakshmi, LRS. The Malabar Muslim a Different Perspective. New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2012. Mushirul-Haq. Islam and Christianity at the crossroads. Reading, 1988. Nazir Ali, M. Frontiers in Muslim-Christian encounter. Oxford: 1987. Nazir Ali, Michael. Islam in secular India. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1972. Padwick, C.E. From everywhere to everywere.Henry Martyn: confessor of the faith. London: Inter-varsity Fellowship, 1922/1953. Schumann, Olaf. Jesus the Messiah in Muslim Thought. English translation from German 2nd. Ed. 1988, Delhi: HMI/ISPCK 2002 Steenbrink, Karel. Jesus in Islam. Delhi: HMI/ Media House 2011. Troll, Christian. Aspects of Religious Thought in Modern Muslim India. Sang-e-Meel Publications 2015 Troll, Christian ed. AkshtarulWasey, Islam and Christianity. Mutual Challenges and Undertakings. Delhi: Shipra 2015 Walbridge,Linda . The Christians of Pakistan: The Passion of Bishop John Joseph. New York: Routledge, 2003, reprint Additional Bibliography Amjad-Ali, Christine. Developing Christian theology in the context of Islam. Rawalpindi: 1996. Bary, Fatima Rifqa. Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and FollowJesus. Water Brook Multnomah: New York 2005. Basant, Rakesh &AbusalehShariff, ed. Oxford Handbook of Muslims. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010. Cragg, Kenneth Dretke. Jesus and the Muslim - an exploration. London: Allen & Unwin, 1985. Gabriel, Theodor. Christian Citizen in an Islamic State: The Pakistan Experience. Lausanne Committee Leaning. The Willowbank report on Muslim evangelism. 1977. Miller, Ronald E. Christian-Muslim dialogue-theological and practical issues. Geneva: LWF Studies 3/1998, 1998. Miller/Mwakabana eds. Blessing in Mosque and Mission. Pasadena CA: William Carey Library, 1980. Mitri, Tarek ed. The Mapilla Muslims of Kerala: a study in Islamic trends. Madras: Orient Longman, 1976. Moucarry, Chawkat G. Religions, law and society- a Christian - Muslim discussion. Geneva: WCC, 1995. Syrijanen, Seppo. In search of meaning and identity - conversion to Christianity in Pakistani Muslim culture. Helsinki 1984. Troll, Christian. Christian Lives Given to the Study of Islam. Fordham University Press: Fordham 2012 Yannoulatos, A. Dialogue and Mission: an Eastern Orthodox view with special reference to Islam. PCID Bulletin no. 76, vol. 26/1, 1991, pp. 61-76.

Faculty review notes: This detailed file uses Miss 18; the curriculum puts the Muslim-background option under Miss 15, while Miss 18 there is Gospel and Culture. The source's historical/theological framing and legal claims need faculty review; it is not current legal advice or a generalisation about Muslims. Dialogue must be voluntary and respectful; no coercion or sensitive identity lists are required. No percentage evaluation scheme is supplied here. AGBS must confirm it; no scheme is copied from another entry.

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