The Different Facet of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope

Christians have lived in Palestine for the reason that earliest days of the Jesus motion. The Palestinian church predates Islam. But Palestinian Christians discover themselves marginalized and ostracized. Within the heated tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian battle, the voices of Palestinian Christians are sometimes unheard and ignored.
This ebook supplies a possibility to listen to the realities of life on the bottom from a number one Palestinian pastor and theologian. Munther Isaac provides the angle of Palestinian Christians on the opposite facet of the separation wall surrounding most Palestinian West Financial institution cities immediately. Isaac laments the injustices suffered by the Palestinian individuals however holds out hope for a simply peace and methods to befriend and love his Jewish and Muslim neighbors. In distinction to the dominant spiritual and nationalistic ideologies and agendas for the area, he presents a theology of the land and a imaginative and prescient for a shared land that belongs to God, the place there aren’t any second-class residents of any type.
“This ebook is my invitation to you,” Isaac writes, “to step into the opposite facet of the wall and hearken to our tales and perspective. It’s my humble request to you to permit me to share how Palestinians expertise God, learn the Bible, and have been touched and liberated by Jesus―a fellow Bethlehemite who has challenged us to see others as neighbors and love them as ourselves. . . . This ebook paints an image of our story of religion, lament, and hope. And I invite you to affix and hear, on our facet of the wall.”