Naim Ateek

Who is Naim Ateek?

The Rev. Dr. Naim Stifan Ateek is a Palestinian Christian who is the head of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem and had been part of a conference in 1990 which led to Sabeel's creation. He went to school to the Nazareth Baptist school where he also taught after graduation. He was the first to articulate a Palestinian theology of liberation in his book, Justice, and only Justice, a Palestinian Theology of Liberation, published by Orbis in 1989. The book laid the foundation of a theology that addresses the conflict over Palestine and explores the political as well as the religious, biblical, and theological dimensions. A former Canon of St. George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem, he lectures widely both at home and abroad. His latest book, A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation, was published by Orbis in 2008.