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NOT OF THIS WORLD?
EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS IN NORTHERN IRELAND
Glenn Jordan

Evangelicalism is one of the least understood sectors of Northern Irish society, evoking emotions that range from bewilderment to disdain and even fear.

Arguing that evangelicalism plays far too important a role to be so easily dismissed or misunderstood, this important new book is based on in-depth interviews with more than seventy men and women from the Protestant evangelical tradition. They talk revealingly about their deepest beliefs and convictions, their understanding of Northern Ireland’s troubled history and their hopes and fears for the future.

The result is a candid and complex portrait of an influential community – a portrait that also offers a more profound understanding of the wider society in which evangelicals live, work and worship.

‘The reader almost feels that he or she is eavesdropping on a conversation - sometimes a heated one - between friends... A revealing and disturbing book.
(Derek Tidball, London Bible College)

‘I have been almost startled to find in this book that many of the perceptions which I have about evangelicals are honestly considered by evangelicals themselves. Some at least are not ignorant of how they are perceived outside their culture, but we on the outside have been ignorant of the questions they ask themselves.’
(Malachi O’Doherty)

THE AUTHOR
Glenn Jordan, a native of Bray in County Wicklow, was born in 1964. He studied at University College Dublin and at Queen’s University Belfast, where he obtained a Bachelor of Divinity degree through Union Theological College. Married with two children, he has lived in Northern Ireland since 1987. He is currently Director of Care and Training Services at East Belfast Mission, and teaches part-time at Belfast Bible College.