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Like Birds in a Cage
Christian Zionism's Collusion in Israel's Oppression of the Palestinian People|
38,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Wipf And Stock Publishers |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 28.10.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781725269583 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 350 |
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Beschreibungen
When Christians collude in crimes against humanity, they betray their citizenship in the kingdom of God, demonstrating that Christ's Lordship does not rule over every area of their lives. The popular ideology known as Christian Zionism is a prime enabler of such widespread discipleship--failure in western Christianity. As the state of Israel continues to violate international law with colonial settlement in lands captured by warfare, legalized racial discrimination, and the creation of what many have called "the world's largest open-air prison" in Gaza, Christian Zionists continue their unqualified support for Zionist Israel. Though Israel advertises itself as "the only democracy in the Middle East," it is actually a rigid ethnocracy--its entire society built on the foundations of Jewish supremacy over a Palestinian underclass. History will eventually judge Christian Zionist support for Israel's crimes against the Palestinians in the same way people of conscience now condemn the Christian church in the American South for its defense of slavery and hostility towards the civil rights movement. Just as the Southern Baptist church finally repudiated its pro-slavery past, so everyone genuinely devoted to Jesus Christ must repudiate both the ideology and the legacy of Christian Zionism.
David M. Crump is a former pastor and retired professor of New Testament at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of a number of books, including
<i>Knocking on Heaven’s Door: A New Testament Theology of Petitionary Prayer</i> (2006),
<i>Encountering Jesus, Encountering Scripture</i> (2013), and
<i>I Pledge Allegiance: A Believer’s Guide to Kingdom Citizenship in 21</i>
<i>st</i>
<i> Century America </i>(2018). He blogs regularly at HumanityRenewed.com.
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<i>Knocking on Heaven’s Door: A New Testament Theology of Petitionary Prayer</i> (2006),
<i>Encountering Jesus, Encountering Scripture</i> (2013), and
<i>I Pledge Allegiance: A Believer’s Guide to Kingdom Citizenship in 21</i>
<i>st</i>
<i> Century America </i>(2018). He blogs regularly at HumanityRenewed.com.
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“This book is quite unique in the way that it combines a sound grasp of the history of Zionism, careful interpretation of the Bible, and firsthand, recent experience of everyday life for Palestinians living under occupation on the West Bank. David Crump understands Christian Zionists extremely well because he grew up as one, and because he reads and quotes what many Christian Zionist leaders have been writing in recent years. My hope and prayer is that this book will help American Christians of all kinds to wake up to the very significant ways in which Christian Zionism has contributed—and continues to contribute—to this tragic conflict. They might then be more able to challenge their government’s policies.”
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<br> —Colin Chapman, author of
<i>Whose Promised Land?</i>
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<i>Like Birds in a Cage</i> is destined to become a standard text on Christian Zionism in the USA. With devastating precision, Dave Crump exposes the cancerous nature of this deviant theology. For Evangelicalism to survive with any credibility, it must repudiate the justification of apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Crump’s book provides not only the diagnosis but also the cure.”
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<br> —Stephen Sizer, Founder and Director, Peacemaker Trust
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<br> “This new volume by David Crump may be the most comprehensive critique of Christian Zionism by an evangelical author to date. As a former ‘insider,’ his unique perspective has delivered a tour de force by combining scholarly biblical exegesis of key texts with incisive theological analysis. His solid grasp of the relevant political and historical context of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle adds context and texture to this wonderfully written book. I hope this volume will be widely read and reviewed across the evangelical spectrum by pastors, biblical scholars, students, and perhaps most urgently, evangelical politicians.”
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<br> —Don Wagner, author of
<i>Anxious for Armageddon</i>
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<br> “A keenly reasoned, comprehensive, full-frontal critique of Christian Zionism. Equally at ease interpreting Saint Paul, critiquing ideologies of privilege, deconstructing Israel’s discriminatory legal regime, and narrating scenes of unarmed, tear-gassed villagers, David Crump mounts a formidable case against the troubling logic and deadly deployment of ethnocracy and territorial exceptionalism. This prophetic call to walk not
<i>where </i>Jesus walked, but
<i>as </i>Jesus walked, is more urgent now than ever.”
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<br> —Bruce N. Fisk, Senior Research Fellow, Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East
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<br> —Colin Chapman, author of
<i>Whose Promised Land?</i>
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<br>
<br>
<br> “
<i>Like Birds in a Cage</i> is destined to become a standard text on Christian Zionism in the USA. With devastating precision, Dave Crump exposes the cancerous nature of this deviant theology. For Evangelicalism to survive with any credibility, it must repudiate the justification of apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Crump’s book provides not only the diagnosis but also the cure.”
<br>
<br> —Stephen Sizer, Founder and Director, Peacemaker Trust
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br> “This new volume by David Crump may be the most comprehensive critique of Christian Zionism by an evangelical author to date. As a former ‘insider,’ his unique perspective has delivered a tour de force by combining scholarly biblical exegesis of key texts with incisive theological analysis. His solid grasp of the relevant political and historical context of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle adds context and texture to this wonderfully written book. I hope this volume will be widely read and reviewed across the evangelical spectrum by pastors, biblical scholars, students, and perhaps most urgently, evangelical politicians.”
<br>
<br> —Don Wagner, author of
<i>Anxious for Armageddon</i>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br> “A keenly reasoned, comprehensive, full-frontal critique of Christian Zionism. Equally at ease interpreting Saint Paul, critiquing ideologies of privilege, deconstructing Israel’s discriminatory legal regime, and narrating scenes of unarmed, tear-gassed villagers, David Crump mounts a formidable case against the troubling logic and deadly deployment of ethnocracy and territorial exceptionalism. This prophetic call to walk not
<i>where </i>Jesus walked, but
<i>as </i>Jesus walked, is more urgent now than ever.”
<br>
<br> —Bruce N. Fisk, Senior Research Fellow, Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East
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