by Duane Alexander Miller
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The major contribution of this book is Blincoe's summarizing of the dominant Protestant missionary strategy from the 1800's on. He calls it The Great Experiment, wherein...
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by Duane Alexander Miller
duanemiller.wordpress.com www.scribd.com/xphilosopherking
The major contribution of this book is Blincoe's summarizing of the dominant Protestant missionary strategy from the 1800's on. He calls it The Great Experiment, wherein Protestants would reform (in their own image, of course) the ancient, scattered churches like the Armenians, Assyrians, and Orthodox, which they encountered as they explored the hinterlands of the Ottoman Empire and Persia. The theory (or experiment, rather) was that these churches, once reformed in the American evangelical image, would go on to do what appeared impossible: evangelize the Muslims. Other historiographers of mission like Pikkert went on to use this label--The great Experiment--with great effect. There is a consensus today that the Great Experiment was, by and large, a failure.
Blincoe writes in a sympathetic style, even when it is clear that the missionaries he is describing had failed to understand the core of the Church's mission to Islam. His verdict is that the Great Experiment was a failure, and that while Christian missionaries were around Kurds for a long time, they never tried to really evangelize the Kurds themselves. Blincoe, director of Frontiers, a missionary agency that specializes in Muslim evangelism, has obviously tried to put his actions where his words are. Rather than just complaining about the lack of missionary insight in the past, he seeks to transform the face of contemporary mission today.
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