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Most mission studies have focused on the work of Western missionaries going to Majority World countries, with few examining indigenous churches and their relationship with Western mission agencies in practicing mission. This book is a historical study of the relationship between the Evangelical Church in Egypt and the American Presbyterian Mission. Wahba covers from when the missionary work began in 1854 until after the departure of the Mission from Egypt in 1967, and the transfer of all the work to the Egyptian Evangelical Church. Tracing the mission work of Egyptians within Egypt and neighbouring Sudan, Wahba analyses the impact that the relationship with the American Mission had and how it determined the indigenous Church’s practice and perspective of mission.

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Publié par	Langham Creative Projects
Date de parution	31 mai 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783681303
Langue	English

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This is a highly significant and valuable analysis of how the work of the American Presbyterian Mission in Egypt from 1854 developed into a genuinely independent and self-supporting national church. While certain weaknesses and limitations of the approaches of the missionaries are laid bare, there is plenty of evidence that solid foundations were laid which have enabled the evangelical church to become a genuinely mission-minded church.
The two extended case studies are particularly timely and relevant. At a time when Christians in the Middle East face such a serious threat from some expressions of radical Islam, the attempt to assess the different approaches of the missionaries to Muslims and Islam and to Muslim evangelism is especially appropriate today. And the case study on the Sudan demonstrates how the national church has resisted the temptation to think only in terms of dependency and survival, and generated its own missionary outreach in a neighbouring country. The foundations laid by generations of American missionaries in the past are being severely tested by all the challenges facing Egyptian and Arab Christians at the present time.
Colin Chapman
Former lecturer in Islamic Studies, Near East School of Theology, Beirut
Visiting lecturer, Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Beirut, Lebanon
Tharwat Wahba’s The Practice of Mission is exactly what is needed in the field of missiology. It is a clearly written investigation into the modern history of missions in Egypt and the Sudan, a study firmly grounded in painstaking archival research. The result is an invaluable and illuminating perspective on the modern formation of Arabic-speaking Protestant communities in the Middle East.
Stephen J. Davis
Pierson College, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Tharwat Wahba’s study, The Practice of Mission in Egypt , is a significant contribution to the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian missions in Egypt. It focuses on the work of the American Presbyterian Mission among the Egyptian Copts beginning in 1854, the establishment of the Evangelical Church of Egypt, and subsequent church-mission relations up to the final separation between church and mission in 1970. The author also examines the church’s engagement in mission in Sudan in partnership with the American Presbyterian Mission, which led to the founding of the Sudanese Presbyterian Church. Dr Wahba is an Egyptian scholar and this work is based on extensive and thorough research into primary sources. It makes a substantial contribution to our understanding both of western missions in Egypt and Sudan and of the Evangelical Church of Egypt, and deserves to be more widely known.
Keith Ferdinando
Former lecturer in Missiology, London School of Theology
Director of Postgraduate Studies, Shalom University of Bunia, DRC
This is a significant historical critique of both Western mission efforts to Egypt and pioneering Egyptian indigenous mission efforts in the modern era. Dr Wahba provides a timely warning for how the church can be negatively impacted for decades by failing to seize opportunities, but it is also an inspiring call to emulate the faith of Egyptian pioneers who modeled courageous faith in the face of difficulties and opposition. This is a book with lessons to be learned for this current season of change.
Keith Small
Honorary Fellow, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University, UK
With a special concern for evangelism, Professor Wahba examines the understanding and practice of mission exercised by the Evangelical Church of Egypt between 1854–1970. Foreign missionary contributions to this history receive their due, but the emphasis here is on the development of an indigenous Egyptian perspective on mission as actually practiced in this particular Muslim majority context. Mission initiatives from Egypt to the Sudan and efforts at outreach to Muslims in Egypt are highlighted in the text. No previous study of this mission history has made such extensive use of Evangelical Church of Egypt primary materials. Interview transcripts add to the rich documentation made available in this welcome study of mission theology and practice.
Stanley H. Skreslet
F. S. Royster Professor of Christian Missions,
Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, USA
This work by Dr Wahba is significant for several reasons. First, it contributes to mission history through its tracing of the work of the American Presbyterian Mission in Egypt, leading to the establishment of the Egyptian church. Second, it records a mission multiplication effect, with the American mission laying the groundwork in Sudan, later carried forward by the Egyptian church. Moreover, this study also demonstrates the important principle of handover, with the American Mission withdrawing once the Egyptian church was self-sufficient. Dr Wahba’s analysis is rigorous, compelling, and accessible. It represents an important contribution to mission studies and the history of the worldwide church.
Peter G. Riddel
Vice Principal (Academic), Melbourne School of Theology, Australia
Professorial Research Associate, History, SOAS, University of London, UK

The Practice of Mission in Egypt
A Historical Study of the Integration between the American Mission and the Evangelical Church of Egypt, 1854–1970
Tharwat Wahba

© 2016 by Tharwat Wahba
Published 2016 by Langham Monographs
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Contents

Cover

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Research Outline: Main Questions

Sources

Methodology and Originality

Nature of the Original Contribution to Knowledge

Previous Relevant Studies

Difficulties

Chapter 1 The Arrival of the American Mission in Egypt and the Establishment of the Evangelical Church

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Egypt in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

1.3 The Origins and Early Work of the American Mission in Egypt

1.4 The Mission Work in Egypt before the American Mission and the Establishment of New Denominations

1.5 The Establishment of the Egyptian Presbyterian Church

1.6 Conclusion

Chapter 2 The Relationship between the American Mission and the Evangelical Church in Egypt (1854–1958)

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Relationship in the Early Period (1854–1904)

2.3 The Relationship in the Second Period: Steps towards Independence (1905–1926)

2.4 The Relationship between 1926–1958

2.5 Conclusion

Chapter 3 The Interaction between the American Mission and Evangelical Church in Muslim Evangelism

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The American Mission and Its Ministry to Muslims

3.3 The Evangelical Church and Muslim Evangelism

3.4 Reasons for the Lack in Converts’ Numbers

3.5 Conclusion

Chapter 4 The Beginning of the American Mission and Evangelical Church Mission Work in Sudan

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Sudan at the End of the Nineteenth Century

4.3 The American Mission Explores the Sudanese Field

4.4 The Beginning of the American Mission Work in Southern Sudan (1901–1912)

4.5 The Beginning of the Work of the Evangelical Church in Sudan (1900–1909)

4.6 The Beginning of the American Mission Work in Northern Sudan (1903–1912)

4.7 The Evangelical Church in Egypt’s Response to the Work in Sudan

4.8 Conclusion

Chapter 5 The Development of the Ministry of the Egyptian Evangelical Church to Sudan (1909–1964)

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Abofarag – a Pastor with a Missionary Heart

5.3 Organizing the Work in Sudan

5.4 The Characteristics of the Work in Sudan 1912–1956