New articles in the Cairo Journal of Theology: Message from the Editor: Secularization in Africa, by Michael Parker (pdf) Secularization in Africa: A Research Desideratum, by Herman Paul (pdf) Western Secularism, African Worldviews, and...
PDF. While history and tradition has come to call it the “Van Dyck Bible,” others, especially Butrus al-Bustani and Eli Smith, had a greater hand in the actual translation than did Van Dyck. In addition, a wide variety of Arab Christian, European and …
PDF. This 2015 volume of the Cairo Journal of Theology (CJT) opens with four articles on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Van Dyck Bible. Cornelius Van Dyck was a medical missionary …
PDF For Christians the Scriptures matter. Their sacred texts, commonly known as “the Bible,” have a central place in forming Christian faith and practice. The Bible contains numerous writings from a period covering more than …
PDF. Cornelius Van Alan Van Dyck (1818-1895) was one of the most prominent American missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to their mission in Ottoman Syria in the nineteenth century. …
PDF. The purpose of this short essay is to review the work of Smith and Van Dyck in terms of the progress of New Testament textual criticism during the nineteenth century. By placing the decision to insist on fidelity to the Textus Receptus …
PDF. In this article, I will focus on three main challenges that are related to the translation of the Bible into Arabic: (1) the challenges of choosing the text; (2) the challenges of choosing the language; and (3) the challenges of choosing the goals and …
PDF. Stark devotes every chapter to correcting common historical misconceptions: the fall of the Roman Empire was not a tragedy but an immense benefit to humankind; there were no “Dark Ages” since …
PDF. Over the last dozen years historian Philip Jenkins has done more than anyone to popularize ideas about the new demographic configuration of Christianity in the world. To his already impressive body of work he has now added …
PDF. The January Revolution and subsequent political events have been exciting and unnerving for all Egyptians. Images of protestors carrying signs for “life, freedom and human rights,” and the participation by people of all economic, social, . . .
PDF. Heather Sharkey sets out to produce a “secular history” (p. 14) of Presbyterian mission in Egypt between 1854 and 1967 that “illuminates both the Egyptian and American dimensions of this historical exchange while attending to the changing . . .
PDF. Bayna al-ʿaql wa-al-īmān is the Arabic translation of a popular presentation of the Christian faith written by the Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921). While there has been a renewed interest in Bavinck in Reformed and Presbyterian . . .