Ethnic Realities and the Church: Lessons from Kurdistan

Product Description Between Iraq and a Hard Place. Before I moved to study Arabic in Jordan, friends said I should "wait until the Middle East calms down." They were even more emphatic after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Instead, we moved to Kurdistan, where people live "between Iraq and a hard place." This is the history of remarkable missionaries who came before us. They learned lessons the hard way; that hasn't changed. The "great experiment" that they undertook for 200 years did not produce the results they hoped for. No doubt the next generation of missionaries will learn their own lessons, sometimes the hard way, but with more wisdom for having been careful students of the past. Review This study of mission work among the Kurds is the most comprehensive and best survey in existence. It captures the dedication and perseverance of the missionaries and the obstacles they encountered. But its greatest contribution is in the evaluating the missiological decisions they made up to the threshold of the present decade, in which some Kurds, without an earthly homeland, have found a heavenly one through Him who had no place to lay His head. J. Dudley Woodberry, PhDdean emerit's and senior professor of Islamic studies, Fuller Theological Seminary About the Author Robert Blincoe graduated with a BA in history from the university of Oregon in 1973. His MDiv and ThM degrees are from Fuller Theological Seminary. He is a Presbyterian minister. His PhD is from William Carey International University.