LIVING AMONG THE BREAKAGE IBD

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Around the world people are leaving Islam for Christianity in unprecedented numbers. This book seeks to look into the world of some of these converts, trying to discern the shape of their newfound faith. Why do they convert? What challenges do they face? And ultimately, what do they in their own complex and sometimes difficult circumstances claim to have understood about God that, while in Islam, they had not? In other words, what is the content of their contextual theology? In seeking to answer these questions, Miller looks into the world of an unintentional church plant in the Arab world consisting of believers from a Muslim background, visits with groups of Iranian converts in the diaspora, and examines the written testimonies of still other converts. In a world where Muslim-Christian relations are increasingly important and sometimes tendentious, this book examines the lived faith and contextual theology of people who have chosen to leave Islam and embrace Christianity.''Miller has provided us with frontline research in an emerging sector of World Christianity--the indigenous theology of Christians from a Muslim background.áWorld Christianity, Muslim-Christian relations, conversion studies, or missiology--if any of these are your area of interest, this book is for you.áIf the mission of God in our world or, perhaps, ?frontier theology? is your concern,áLiving among the Breakageáis for you.áIn these pages, Miller engages the theology of the globally emerging churches of Christians from a Muslim background (CMB).áHe approaches the task from several creative angles:áfield work amongst Iranian diaspora congregations, analysis of CMB books, poetry, and testimonial literature, and the case study of a semi-covert CMB congregation in the Arabophone Middle East.áWhat Miller has done here is compelling in its creative simplicity.áLiving among the Breakageáis a work of contextualization, but a ?contextualization from within?:áthis is a disciplined effort at eliciting, ordering, and analyzing the distinctive (if thoroughly informal and implicit) theology of the growing, sometimes overlooked, CMB churches around the world. Though this is a systematic and analytic piece of research, Miller remains highly attuned to the practical, earthy, and conflicted experience of former Muslims in transition between Church and Mosque, with a foot yet in each world--the ?old? and the ?new.?áLiving among the Breakageáis an original work with an exciting sympathy and sensitive realism towards its subjects--people and communities under pressure, struggling to adapt to new realities, contexts, and identities, believers who for all their experience of liminality are making dynamic contributions to the living texture ofátomorrow?ságlobal Church.''--Brent Neely, author, coeditor, with Peter Riddell, ofáIslam and the Last Day: Christian Perspectives on Islamic Eschatologyá(2014)''Duane Miller?s new work,áLiving among the Breakage, is a must-read for those interested in religiou