The Palestinian Cause in the Writing of Egyptian Christian Religious Leaders: The Christian Identity of Palestine and the Palestinian Cause as a Christian Cause
This article presents a reading and an analysis of the Palestinian cause and resistance in the writings and speeches of three prominent Egyptian Christian religious figures: the One Hundred and Seventeenth Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria, Pope Shonouda III; the One Hundred and Eighteenth Coptic O...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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International journal of public theology
Year: 2025, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 297-319 |
| Further subjects: | B
Liberation Theology
B Coptic Orthodox Church B Israeli Conflict / Palestinian B Jesuit Order in Egypt |
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| Summary: | This article presents a reading and an analysis of the Palestinian cause and resistance in the writings and speeches of three prominent Egyptian Christian religious figures: the One Hundred and Seventeenth Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria, Pope Shonouda III; the One Hundred and Eighteenth Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria, Pope Tawdrous II and Jesuit Father William Sidhom. It also shows the role of the Palestinian cause in the relationship between the Egyptian state and the Coptic Church by studying the historical incident of the removal of Pope Shenouda III from his position as the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church and his imprisonment by President Anwar Sadat after Pe Shenouda III’s ban on Coptic pilgrimages to Israel. This article attempts to challenge the narrative that the Palestinian cause is a Muslim/Jewish conflict and to present an alternative narrative of the Palestinian cause as a Christian cause and the Palestinian identity as a Christian identit in the speeches and writings of these three influential Egyptian Christian religious figures. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7320 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of public theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697320-20250006 |
