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Islam, like Christianity, Judaism, and Biblical Religion before it, represents a combination of influence and inspiration. During the early period of its formation, Islam was profoundly influenced by Jewish models that had developed under the rabbinic sages.
Aug 27, 2019 · In this article, I explore the relationship between popular and scholarly modes of understanding these religions. I examine the role of religious competition as a framework through which to research Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The Handbook thus includes authoritative yet accessible studies on a variety of topics dealing comparatively with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as with the interactions between the adherents of these religions throughout history.
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The Abraham/Ibrahim Story
- Supersession
- The Uneven Issue of the Enlightenment
This chapter introduces the notion of Abrahamic Religions as it applies to Islam, Christianity and Judaism. It is contended that the notion constitutes a foundational sacred Story for each of the religions that is held in common. The chapter begins exploration of the major similarities and differences between and across the three religions in their...
As was implied already in the Preface, ‘Abrahamic Religions is a term enjoying ’ wider currency than in the past. It has been in the past a more sharply Muslim perspective in that Islamic theology has displayed a clearer consciousness of the relationship between the three religions than have the theologies of Christianity or, least of all, Judaism....
Nor is there common consensus on the interpretation of the Abraham/Ibrahim Story, identied above as the common factor in regard to the three religions. For fi Judaism, Abraham was the rst Ancestor of Israel, the founding father of their fi religion, with whom God made a religious covenant and to whom speci c promises fi regarding progeny and an inh...
It needs to be said that both Christianity and Islam have an innate tendency towards supersession. Christianity has consistently claimed to have superseded Judaism; Islam has claimed to supersede both Judaism and Christianity. Christianity has often de ned itself as the New Israel and so viewed the continuance of Judaism fi after the Christian peri...
There is also an academic impasse that limits the feasibility of mutual under-standing. Judaism and Christianity in the West were more exposed to the period of the Enlightenment. From about the middle of the seventeenth century, Europe was convulsed by a new intellectual movement, called The Enlightenment that targeted Christianity, in the forms of...
- Terence Lovat, Robert Crotty
- 2015
know the basic facts about the religions covered in the course, namely their histories and the vocabulary pertaining to their beliefs and practices. understand the academic study of religion. be able to think critically about religion as a human, historical, and cultural phenomenon.
INTERPRETING SCRIPTURES IN JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM. This comparative study traces Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scrip-tural interpretation from antiquity to modernity, with special emphasis on the pivotal medieval period. It focuses on three areas: responses in the different faith traditions to tensions created by the need to transplant ...
Oct 5, 2013 · The religions of ancient Israel and Judah constitute the primary religious foundation for the development of the western monotheistic traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Ancient Israelite and Judean religions emerge in the land of Canaan during the late-second millennium bce.
