I Am a Pilgrim a Traveler a Stranger: Exploring the Life and Mind of the First American Missionary to the Middle East the Rev. Pliny Fisk (1792-1825):...see more
In this book--part biography part critical analysis--John Hubers introduces us to a man whose pioneering ministry in the Ottoman Empire has gone largely unnoticed since his memoir was penned in 1828 three years after his death in Beirut by a seminary colleague. His name was Pliny Fisk and he belonged to a cadre of New England seminary students whose evangelical Calvinism led them to believe that God was opening up a new chapter in the life of the Church that included an aggressive evangelism out