Christian Mission to Muslims: The Record: Anglican and Reformed Approaches in India and the Near East, 1800-1938 ([The William Carey Library series on Islamic studies]). This item is unavailable.Christian Mission to Muslims: The Record: Anglican and Reformed Approaches in India and the Near East, 1800-1938 ([The William Carey Library series on Islamic studies])

The Record: Anglican and Reformed Approaches in India and the Near East, 1800-1938

This book aims to offer the reader access to the treasury of experience and literature resulting from nineteenth- and twentieth-century missions to Muslims. Based on the author’s doctoral work completed at the University of Edinburgh, this research also grew out of the author's mission service in the Near East. This volume represents research completed under the direction of professors W. M. Watt and A. C. Cheyne.

Christian Mission to Muslims will prove of good encouragement to the host of Christ’s disciples living and witnessing among their Muslim neighbors. This work is consistent with the larger biblical vision granted by God through prophet, Messiah, and apostle—a vision voiced in the Abrahamic prayer and the motto of the Arabian Mission: “O that Ishmael might live in thy sight!” (Gen 17:18); in Jesus’s words: “I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice” (John 10:15–16); and in the abiding hope of Revelation 11:15: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever.”

Dr. Lyle Vander Werff served as Professor of Religion at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, retiring in 1988. He first encountered the Muslim world while serving as a missionary with the Arabian Mission in Kuwait. The need for historical perspective on Christian-Muslim relations and for a workable pattern for fulfilling the Great Commission prompted studies in Islamics with Dr. Kenneth Cragg at Jerusalem, and later a doctoral program at New College (theology and mission) and the William Muir Institute (Islamics) at the University of Edinburgh.

A minister of the Reformed Church in America, Dr. Vander Werff served with the Theological Commission of the RCA.