Jay Smith (Christian apologist)

Jay Smith
Born	1954 (age 62–63) India
Nationality	United States
Education	B.A. Messiah College M.Div. Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary M.A Fuller Theological Seminary
Occupation	Christian apologist
Known for	apologetic, polemics, historical critique
Website	http://www.debate.org.uk/videos/

Jay Smith (born 1954) Jay Smith is a Christian evangelist and apologist. Since 1983, he has been a full-time missionary with the Brethren in Christ Mission with a focus on polemics and apologetics among the Muslims of London.

Smith was born in India to Church of the United Brethren in Christ missionaries and attended high school in India. His grandparents were also missionaries. He earned a B.A. from Messiah College and then a masters of Divinity from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in apologetics.

In 1981, while studying for his masters, he took a seminar on Islam and noting that there were only 1,500 Christians ministering to Muslims worldwide, he decided to become a missionary to the Muslim world and pursued a second master's degree in Islamic studies from Fuller Theological Seminary.

In 1987, he moved to Senegal as a missionary and in 1992, he moved to London where he continued his education working on a Ph.D at the London School of Theology. In 2001, he halted his education to concentrate on apologetics following a series of Islamic terrorist attacks (see the September 11 attacks).

In 2007, he continued working on his Phd at the Melbourne School of Theology. Smith heads up the Hyde Park Christian Fellowship which emphasizes the use of Polemics with Muslims over Apologetics; and is often seen at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London. He often engages in public debates with prominent Muslim apologists and scholars including Omar Bakri Muhammad, Azzam Tamimi,Shabir Ally, Anjem Choudary, Abdur Raheem Green and Hamza Tzortzis.

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