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- Title: Secular and Religious: ELCJHL Contributions to Palestinian Nationalism (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land)
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 289 KB
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Palestinian nationalism is linked intimately to Jewish nationalism. Whereas Jewish nationalism's underlying ideology, Zionism, has been highly successful at organizing Western political powers to establish and maintain the state of Israel, Palestinians--the descendants of persons living in the land prior to organized Jewish immigration--have not been nearly as successful at marshalling support for their nationalist cause. Arab sources of support have themselves experienced political disarray. The project of establishing a secure and independent state of Palestine existing by Israel's side--a goal envisioned by the United Nations partition plan of 1947 (1)--remains unfinished. Palestinian Christians, though relatively unknown to their North American coreligionists, have long been involved in efforts to realize the goal of a pluralist Palestinian state. The ELCJHL--Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (2)--has discerned that an integral part of its mission is to develop and nurture this still-flourishing sense of Palestinian nationalism. Through regional and local involvement in the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), partnerships with the Lutheran World Federation, participation in interfaith dialogue with both Muslims and Israeli Jews, and the nurturing of strong ties with Lutherans and other Protestants in Europe and North America, the ELCJHL, though small, has emerged as an insistent voice pleading for a renewal of Christian witness regarding Israel/Palestine and crying out for a just peace enjoyed by all its inhabitants. (3)
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