Scotland Supports Palestine - Alasdair Black: Early Christian Zionism
Alasdair Black gives this talk on Early Christian Zionism at Augustine United Church on 9th May as part of Scotland Supports Palestine 2023!
About Scotland Supports Palestine - Alasdair Black: Early Christian Zionism
Alasdair Black lectures at the University of the West of Scotland on Scottish church history and has served as senior pastor of Stirling Baptist Church for 25 years. He published ‘The Balfour Declaration: Scottish Presbyterian eschatology and British policy towards Palestine’
He will discuss the rise of Christian Zionist thinking in Britain well before Herzl’s development of Zionism as a European Jewish movement and the pathways that led from Scottish Presbyterianism to the Christian Zionism that took root in the USA and has become a major political force there.
“Christian Zionism or Restorationism — the belief that the Jewish people were destined by God to have a homeland in Palestine and Christians were obliged to use means to enable this to take place — existed as a well thought out, influential and coherent belief system long before any form of political Jewish nationalism had ever emerged in Europe,..
“It was this tradition that allowed the Zionists to overcome significant Jewish opposition in both Britain and America and the general political reluctance to support a homeland for the Jews in Palestine.” Alasdair Black
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Scotland Supports Palestine is a week of events, a combined effort by a range of groups who support the Palestinian people's right to freedom.
Supporters include: Friends of Al Aqsa, Scottish Palestinian Society, Scottish Friends of Palestine, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Art27 Scotland, Dundee TUC, Aberdeen TUC, Edinburgh Action for Palestine, Muslim Council of Scotland, Network of Photographers for Palestine, Palestine Action.
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