NESTORIAN MERCHANT MISSIONARIES AND TODAY’S UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS Howard D. Owens
A Paper Presented at the National Meeting of the Evangelical Missiological Society Th.M., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003 M.Div., Columbia International University, 1988 B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1980 Minneapolis, Minnesota September 22-24, 2005 Travel well girt like merchants, That we may gain the world. Convert men to me, Fill creation with teaching. A Syriac hymn quoted by Richard C. Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road, 62. 1Andrew F. Walls, “Eusebius Tries Again: Recovering the Study of Christian History,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 24,3...
Read MoreTheodore Abu Qurrah By Daniel C. Peterson
One of the misconceptions that many Westerners have is that all Arabs are Muslims, and that Muslims are all Arabs. In fact, of course, many of the major Islamic countries in the world (e.g., Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and the most populous of them all, Indonesia) are not Arab, and large minorities in some Arab countries are not Muslim. Christianity is a Near Eastern religion, not a European one, and it is has been in the Near East since its origin. (An Egyptian Christian friend once complained to me about how tired he had become of Americans and Europeans asking him whether his...
Read MoreThe Legend of the Middle Ages / Fjordman
The book that inspired this text was The Legend of the Middle Ages: Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Rémi Brague, a French professor and specialist of medieval religious philosophy. He is also the author of the fine book Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization, which I have written an extensive essay about previously. Thematically this text overlaps to some extent with some of the material from my book Defeating Eurabia. I will supplement it with some quotes from two good online interviews with Mr. Brague. Medieval Muslims were...
Read MoreThe Syrian Christians: Narrative of a Tour in the Travancore Mission of the Church Missionary Society John M. Barton
Mission Life, Vol. III (new series) (1872), pages 510-516 Transcribed by the Right Reverend Dr. Terry Brown Bishop of Malaita, Church of the Province of Melanesia, 2006 ________________________________________ [Full particulars of the present state of Travancore will be found in an interesting work entitled The Land of Charity, published by Messrs. Snow, Paternoster Row.] THE Travancore Mission is divided into two districts, North and South, each under the charge of a resident missionary, who superintends the native pastorates. The character of the people, and the nature of the work, is much...
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