“American Mission, Egyptian Church: The Making of a Coptic Evangelical Presbyterian Community"
The Egyptian Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the development of a Coptic Protestant identity emerged after 1854, when American missionaries started work in Egypt. The Egyptian church became increasingly distinct from the American mission as the decades passed, and two sources of tension divided...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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The journal of Presbyterian history
Year: 2006, Volume: 84, Issue: 2, Pages: 170-180 |
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| Summary: | The Egyptian Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the development of a Coptic Protestant identity emerged after 1854, when American missionaries started work in Egypt. The Egyptian church became increasingly distinct from the American mission as the decades passed, and two sources of tension divided them: debates over how “modern" and culturally Western the local church should be, and how it should evangelize. Since Egyptian decolonization in the 1950s, the Coptic Evangelical community did not emerge through the simple assertion of ethnic particularism within what was once an American mission-sponsored enterprise, but rather through the interplay of forces emanating from the Egyptian political and social environment, and from American Christian ideas in an age of mounting U.S. power. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Presbyterian history
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