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How can we think deeply about Islam?

How can we think deeply about Islam?

Andrew Marsay

In September 2018, en featured a review of Ida Glaser and Hannah Kay’s: Thinking Biblically About Islam.

The book shows how the God of the Bible engages with peoples of other religions. But the equally Biblical emphasis that God confronts the gods of other religions is largely absent. Provoked by en’s headline ‘Can you do better?’ I perhaps rashly decided to respond with a book that would simply state the Bible’s and the Qur’an’s teachings about God, in six basic theological categories.

Behind	the	argument	is	a	person

Behind the argument is a person

Andrew Marsay

Book Review THE MAKING OF AN ATHEIST

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Letter

Prioritising mission

Andrew Marsay
Date posted: 1 Jul 2017

Dear Editor,

John M’s article, ‘Mixing mission’ (en May), highlights concerns about churches no longer prioritising missions as they used to. While this concern is understandable, the power of the plea is diminished because no biblical analysis of the problem is offered.

Letter

LGBT and sleeping church

Andrew Marsay
Date posted: 1 Jan 2017

Dear en,

On reading the November en, Christian Concern’s brief report on USA sexual orientation research provided a very helpful background to reading, just a couple of pages on, ‘While the church sleeps’ by Dr Lisa Nolland, alerting the church to the extraordinary success of the LGBT’s penetration of schools etc. in the UK.

Samuel Marinus Zwemer

Andrew Marsay

2002 is the 50th anniversary of the death, in April 1952, of Samuel Marinus Zwemer. Though unknown outside specialist missionary circles, he was widely acknowledged in his lifetime as the world's foremost authority on all matters relating to Christian witness to Islam.

This reputation emerged from a 50-year career involving pioneer missionary work, literature propagation and advocacy work on behalf of mission to Muslims and finally a career in teaching and writing on missionary theology and practice.