The political issues surrounding the Middle East can make the crisis seem impossible to understand. This book is specifically designed to help Christians understand the issues behind the politics: key differences and similarities in religious perspectives of Jews, Christians and Muslims. Presented very simply, the book explains key events leading up to today's crisis. You'll learn how and why the problems we see in the Middle East are so confusing! Inside are maps, diagrams, timeline, references and definitions pertaining to all three major faith groups. This is a great resource and reference for Christians. Religious Origins of the Middle East Crisis looks at: 1. Who are the Jews, Christians Muslims, Sunni, Shia, and Druze? 2. What are the religious conflicts about? 3. Why can't these groups get along? 4. Is there really a solution to the Middle East conflict? 5. Other than terrorism, affecting gas prices, and involving the men and women of our Armed Forces, how does the conflict relate to me and my life? 6. And more.

Explore the history of conflict in the Middle East, from ancient times to today's headlines. Take a balanced but unflinching look at: The warring civilizations of the ancient Middle East..The early expansion of Islam...What most textbooks don't tell you about the Crusades...Wars between Israel and its Arab neighbors...The Israeli-Palestinian conflict...Why religion and politics are intertwined in the Middle East...How Iran became an Islamic Republic...Iraq from ancient times to the post-Saddam era...How Bin Laden became a radical.and then a terrorist...Islamist terror beyond the Middle East...and much, much more

Dive into the biblical history that provides a clear, in-depth explanation of the origin, history, and significance of the Middle East conflict. Starting with Abraham, learn how he became the father of 3 religions, how his sons’ rivalry planted the roots for turmoil, and how the nations of Israel and Palestine continue this stalemate in current affairs. The current conflict in the Middle East began long before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. It originated when Abraham sinned, distorting God's promise that he and his heirs would make a great nation and inherit the land now called The Holy Land. A historical and political account,?Seeds of Turmoil?clearly explains the biblical story of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar and the ensuing sibling rivalry between Jacob and Esau, whose choices formed the world's three most influential religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This fascinating insight into the beginnings of the conflict also explains what about the land is so important today. In addition, Wright sheds light on the conflicting Jewish, Christian, and Islamic perspectives and answers the question, Does God play favorites? A faith-based view on Middle Eastern relations, Seeds of Turmoil?provide the historical context for a modern understanding of how and why these current events take place.

Christians and the Middle East Conflict deals with the relationship of Christians and Christian theology to the various conflicts in the Middle East, a topic that is often sensationalized but still insufficiently understood. Political developments over the last two decades, however, have prompted observers to rediscover and examine the central role religious motivations play in shaping public discourses. This book proceeds on the assumption that neither a focus on the eschatological nor a narrow understanding of the plight of Christians in the Middle East is sufficient. Instead, it is necessary to understand Christians in context and to explore the ways that Christian theology applies through the actions of Christians who have lived and continue to live through conflict in the region either as native inhabitants or interested foreign observers. This volume addresses issues of concern to Christians from a theological perspective, from the perspective of Christian responses to conflict throughout history, and in reflection on the contemporary realities of Christians in the Middle East. The essays in this volume combine contextual political and theological reflections written by both scholars and Christian activists and will be of interest to students and scholars of Politics, Religion and Middle East Studies.

Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region's political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers and as the momentum of religious change shifted from Christianity to Islam and back, adding new dimensions to the history of the region and the nature of the relationship between the Middle East and the West. Historians and political scientists increasingly recognize the importance of integrating religion into political analysis, and this volume, using long-neglected sources, uniquely advances this effort. It surveys Christian missions from the earliest days of Christianity to the present, paying particular attention to the role of Christian missions, both Protestant and Catholic, in shaping the political and economic imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon delineate the ongoing tensions between conversion and the focus on witness and "good works" within the missionary movement, which contributed to the development and spread of nongovernmental organizations. Through its conscientious, systematic study, this volume offers an unparalleled encounter with the social, political, and economic consequences of such trends.

The subject matter of this book touches the life of every American. No matter your political, religious, racial, or philosophical background, you are directly affected by events unfolding in the Middle East. The struggle between modern Jews and Palestinian Arabs in the old land of Canaan has been ongoing for about one hundred years. The spark for this geopolitical feud was ignited some thirty-eight centuries ago, approximately 1800 BC, when twin sons, Esau and Jacob, were born from the womb of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac, who himself was the promised child born to Abraham and Sarah. That a complete understanding of the Middle East Crisis and its solution lies as close as a copy of the Bible is not something that most people would believe. In this faithless generation, enlightened minds need to turn to the Bible for answers. God forbid that the arrogance and pride of modern man fail to consult with the Creator of heaven and earth and the revelation of His Word. Hopefully, those who read and ponder the pages of this book will surely find solace and comfort in knowing that the root cause of and solution to the Middle East Crisis lie as close at hand as the historic Bible.