Robert O Smith

More Desired Than Our Owne Salvation

The Roots of Christian Zionism

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Produktbeschreibung

Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. Robert O. Smith provides an in-depth look at the English Protestant tradition of Judeo-centric prophecy interpretation at the heart of this popular affinity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199993246
• ISBN-10: 0199993246
• Artikelnr.: 36964005

Autorenporträt

Pastor and Area Program Director for the Middle East & North Africa, the Evangelical Lutheran Church; co-moderator of the Palestine-Israel Ecumenical Forum of the World Council of Churches. Ph.D. in Religion, Politics & Society from Baylor University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* Chapter 1 Blessing the Jew: The Traits of Contemporary American
Christian Zionism
* Chapter 2 Supporting the Jew: Culture, Doctrine, and American Popular
Opinion on the State of Israel
* Chapter 3 Mythologizing the Jew: The Reformation Foundations of
Judeo-centric Prophecy Interpretation (1530-1603)
* Chapter 4 Militarizing the Jew: Judeo-centric Prophecy
Interpretation, Thomas Draxe to Joseph Mede (1608-1627)
* Chapter 5 Admitting the Jew: Parliamentary Authority, Christian
Zionism, and British Imperial Identity
* Chapter 6 Typologizing the Jew: The Judeo-Centric Foundations of
America's Covenantal Vocation
* Chapter 7 Systematizing the Jew: John Nelson Darby and the Putative
Paternity of Christian Zionism
* Chapter 8 Politicizing the Jew: William E. Blackstone and the
Mobilization of Cultural Fundamentalism
* Conclusion: Christian Zionism from the Cartwright Petition to
American Empire
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index