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Building on this foundation, the author compared the major similarities and differences between the Jewish, Christian and Islamic Religions, especially via the lens of Monotheism, exploring the Jewish Shema, Christian Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, and Islam"s Tawheed.
- Hannah C McAllan
In 2016, Larycia Hawkins, a tenured theology professor at Wheaton University, ignited campus-wide controversy at the evangelical school because she claimed that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. “I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,” Hawkins wrote in response.
discussed in this book fi t into the historical development of the Christian and Muslim traditions, I have usually provided dates according to both the Christian (i.e. Common Era) and Islamic calendars. (In the early chapters, where only one date is given, it refers to the Christian Common Era calen-
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...
what does the Bible say the church is? What is its nature? By looking at various biblical images used throughout the Scriptures, this paper will shed some light on the nature of the church. Other questions about the church which arise today are: “What is the function of the church?”; and “What exactly are we put on this earth to do?”
For Christians, God’s word became Christ, while Muslims firmly believe that God’s rev-elation to Muhammad is the Qur’an. To put it in another way, for Christians, the Word of God became incarnate in a man, and for Muslims, the Word of God became a book, a kitab.
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The English word “church”. This English word derives from the Greek word kuriako/n kuriakon, “the Lord’s.”. This Greek word is found in Rev 1:10, “the Lord’s day; and in 1 Cor 11:20, “the Lord’s Supper.”.