Back, Peter Robert, <br/><br/>
Should missionaries keep the Muslim fast? /by Peter Robert Back. 

 -  1994. 
 - x, 137 leaves ;  29 cm. 
<br/><br/> Typescript.  Chapter 1. The Problem  Chapter 2. The Case to Observe Ramadan, Motivations, Presuppositions and Perceptions  Chapter 3. Muslim Reception and Perception of Christians Who Keep Ramadan  Chapter 4. Ramadan: Spiritual Discipline or a Social and Cultural Event?  Chapter 5. Does Exegesis of 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 Support the Case for Missionaries to Observe Ramadan?  Chapter 6. Conclusions  List of Illustrations 
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<br/><br/>A Biblical Basis? --  The Research Questions --  The Background Investigation and Research Procedure. Knowing and Feeling --  Bridge Building --  Missiological Presuppositions --  A Theological Motivation --  Chapter Evaluation. The Context for Understanding Christian Fasting in Ramadan --  (Ethnographic Background Investigation Findings for Questions 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7) --  Investigation Findings for Questions 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11 and Muslim comments concerning Missionary Motive and Integrity --  Delimitations --  An Evaluation of the Ethnographic Background Investigation Findings --  An Evaluation of Missionary Involvement in Ramadan in view of the Ethnographic Background Investigation Findings. Ramadan: Its Original Context --  Fasting According to the Qur'an and Hadith --  The Development of Islamic Fasting, an Exception to Fasting: "The Feeding of a Poor Man" and the Abrogation of this Exception --  Ramadan: A Social and Cultural Event? --  Chapter Evaluation. The Wider Context of 1 Cor. 9:19-23 --  Exegesis on 1 Cor. 9:19-23 --  David A Black: An Alternative Exegesis --  Matthew 6:16-18 A Control Study for 1 Cor. 9:19-23 --  Chapter Evaluation. Keeping Ramadan: Necessary Comparisons Between Christianity and Islam, Based on Thesis Research and an Exegetical Conclusion from 1 Corinthians 9:22 --  There is a Biblical Alternativev to Fasting in Ramadan --  The Second Presupposition From Chapter Two --  Keeping Ramadan: The Conscience Factor --  Keeping Ramadan: Motivation and Integrity. The Logic of the Thesis Presentation --  Illustrative Chart of Different Models of Contextualization. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions--Dissertations.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ramadan.<br/>Fasting--Religious aspects--Islam.<br/>Missions to Muslims.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV4070  / .S568 1994 BV4070