Protestant Missionaries To The Middle East: : Ambassadors Of Christ Or Culture? Paperback - 2008

Peter has a B.Th. from Prairie Bible College, a M.S.Sc. from Syracuse University and a D.Th. from the University of South Africa. He also graduated from the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, has Cambridge University's Certificate in Teaching English, Leicester University's Advanced Diploma in TESOL, the Advanced Diploma in Arabic from the University of Jordan (Amman) and has studied Turkish at the University of Istanbul. He is comfortable in 4 languages, Arabic, Dutch, English and Turkish, and has also written numerous articles and a number of books, including "The Fall of Christendom and the Rise of the Church", two descriptive grammars, "A Basic Course in Modern Kurmanji" and "A Basic Course in Modern Turkish", and such novels as "Desecrated Lands" and "The Visitor". He is a faculty member at Toronto Baptist Seminary, where he teaches Applied Linguistics, Christian-Muslim Relations and Missiology and is the lead facilitator for the applied linguistics course PLANTS, taught by MissionPrep (Toronto). Peter has spent most of his adult life in the Middle East and, together with his wife Anna, continues to reside there--when not teaching elsewhere. They have two children, Owen and Rita.