Navigating the Biblical Mandate:

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" Navigating the Biblical Mandate: "
Aron Engberg

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1067141
Doc. No	:	LA110770
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341571‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Aron Engberg
Title & Author	:	Navigating the Biblical Mandate: [Article] : Discursive Change and Adaptation in the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem\ Aron Engberg
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	49/3-4
Page No	:	297–315
Abstract	:	Since its inception in 1980, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) has developed into a central player in the formation of Christian Zionism globally. It is known through its high profile in Israeli society, its financial, moral and political support for the State of Israel and its controversial mix of theology and politics. This article focuses on ICEJ’s ideological and theological negotiation in relation to Israeli society. It argues that even though ICEJ’s self-understanding is based on what it claims to be “eternal, biblical mandates” and its political positions have been largely consistent over time, ICEJ’s theology, rhetoric and social positions have changed quite significantly. The article interprets this duality as a case of “flexible absolutism”, a capacity to ideologically frame diverse positions as eternal absolutes. Recognizing this tension is important in order to successfully disentangle the organization’s rhetoric from its broader ideological aims.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Asian Studies
Descriptor	:	Christian Zionism
Descriptor	:	dispensationalism
Descriptor	:	Evangelicalism
Descriptor	:	flexible absolutism
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	International Christian Embassy Jerusalem
Descriptor	:	Israel
Descriptor	:	Religion
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	restorationism
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341571‬