Kwok Pui Lan
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The ongoing war in Gaza and broader Middle Eastern violence is prompting scholars to examine the British Empire's colonial legacy in the region and the roles played by the Church of England and The Episcopal Church. The Anglican mission began in Palestine with the creation of an Anglo-Prussian Episcopal See in Jerusalem in 1841. Christian Zionism in England influenced the development of Jewish Zionism and the support for the Balfour Declaration. Yet no book introduces this complex history and brings this to bear on what happens in today’s Palestine. Until now.
Edited by Dr. Kwok Pui-lan with contributors from across the globe, including Canon Professor Mark Chapman, Dr. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Dr. Miranda Pillay, Rev. Dr. Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, Dr. Fadi Diab, Dr. Thandi Gamedze, and Dr. Gustavo Gilson Sousa de Oliviera, The Anglican Church and Palestine will be a groundbreaking volume.
September 2026
US$28.95
Advance Praise:
The Anglican Church and Palestine breaks open the historical, political, and ecclesiological underpinnings of Anglicanism in the Holy Land. This book is required reading for any person of faith who is concerned about the plight of Palestinians and how the church can participate in the struggle for liberation and justice in Palestine.
The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas,
Retired bishop of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, USA
A vital contribution to the study of church history, Christian Zionism, and global decolonial movements, the book speaks with urgency and clarity to our present moment. As the ongoing genocide in Palestine makes painfully evident, the questions it raises are not only timely but profoundly necessary.
Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb
Dar al-Kalima University, Bethlehem, Palestine
Much of it will likely feel new: whether the historical account of Anglicanism’s colonial presence and legacy in the region from the mid‑nineteenth century onward, or the perspectives of contemporary Palestinian Anglican theologians. Taken together, the volume offers an important and illuminating contribution to post‑colonial studies and our understanding of the region.
Rev. Dr. Michael Battle
Theologian in Community at Trinity Church Boston
It is a deeply informed, increasingly urgent cry from the hearts of the contributors for all Anglicans to respond now with equal courage and determination, to act more publicly and more resolutely to usher in an era of enduring peace with justice for all in the Palestine of Jesus, indeed the Palestine of all faith-filled hearts.
Dr. Jenny Te Paa-Daniel
St. Johns Anglican Theological College, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Kwok Pui-lan is Distinguished Scholar at the Episcopal Divinity School and a past president of the American Academy of Religion. She is the author of The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective and coeditor of Living Postcolonial Anglicanism and Anglican Women on Church and Mission. She received the Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship from the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2021.