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Mar 8, 2011 · In light of the widespread public perception of incompatibility between Islam and Christianity, this book provides a much-needed straightforward comparison of these two great faith traditions...
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This article surveys the wide range of approaches to Christian theological engagement with Islam reflected in around 20 recent publications, focusing largely on monographs published from 2016 on.
- David Marshall
The religious and theological distance that grew between Muslims and Christians in later centuries was due to a combination of religious, communal, and political reasons. While Christian communities in the lands of Islam enjoyed a relative degree of religious freedom and social integration, occasionally they also faced hostile circumstances.
- Ibrahim Kalin
- 2010
- Introduction: Unmasking a Complex Trajectory
- A Tradition of Calumny and Contestation
- A Dialogical Approach Unfolds
- Conclusion: A New Demand of the Minaret
This chapter examines some significant Christian scholarship and theological reflections on Islam. This is a massive body of literature; thus, this chapter will focus on selective Christian perspectives on Islam. Christian responses to Islam evoke multiple paradigms and perspectives that transcend either simple or monolithic categoriza-tion. These ...
Contemporary images of Islam have been shaped by a long tradition of anti-Islam rhetoric, polemics, and dispute. According to Edward Said, “the caricatures of Islam and Muslims have emerged out of a history of political turmoil and religious conflict. In some cases, these negative images have been engendered by colonial conquest and aggrandizement....
The twentieth century witnessed a new development in Christian-Muslim relations that emphasized more openness and tolerance in the way the adherents of these two faiths deal with one another. In Christian circles, there was a renewed effort to understand the effects of globalization and transnationalism on the inevitable religious diversity that en...
Our new global climate calls for a new sense of interreligious sen-sitivity and tolerance. Christians are commanded by the gospels to embrace a prophetic vision that calls for love, compassion, and under-standing toward people of other religious traditions. In terms of Islam, the church was compelled to jettison its previous notions of Islam as a f...
- Akintunde E. Akinade
- 2014
Jan 3, 2022 · As well as the ecclesial diversity of the authors – Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, evangelical – the survey covers varied theological approaches on a spectrum from “maximalist” to “minimalist” assessments of the extent of common ground between Christianity and Islam.
Introduction. The Christian background to the coming of Islam Early Christian thinking about other religions The history of the Christian Church in the Middle East. The Islamic impact Muh.ammad’s contacts with Christians The Qur’aˉn’s view of Christians Precedents for Muslim treatment of Christians.
Four historical models of Christian theological engagement with Islam represent a broad spectrum across which Christian theologians have accounted for the church’s relationships with Islamic thought as they have perceived it. The four are the polemical, the Scholastic, the Christianinclusivist, and the dialogical.
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