From Conversion to Assimilation: Developing a Missional Ecclesiology to Retain Converted Muslims to Christ in North America
[Thesis]
Johnny Elbitar
Massey, John
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
2017
285
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-88327-5
Ph.D.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
2017
This study is concerned with finding a place called home for immigrant Christian converts from Islamic backgrounds living in North America. The mission of the church to Muslim people has accomplished greater success in the effort of communicating the Gospel to Muslims than in assimilating them into the fellowship of believers. Missiologists and theologians have zealously and passionately invested expertise in making the Gospel comprehensible to Muslim hearts and minds. Mission workers' exploration of new methods tends to end with the goal of conversion. However, conversion does not constitute an all-inclusive expectation for a life with Christ, but rather, it is only a starting point.
Religion; Philosophy; Cultural anthropology; Theology