Mona Siddiqui
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300169706
- eISBN:
- 9780300189261
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300169706.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. This book takes the reader on a personal, theological journey exploring the ...
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Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. This book takes the reader on a personal, theological journey exploring the centrality of Jesus in Christian–Muslim relations. Christian and Muslim scholars have used Jesus and Christological themes for polemical and dialogical conversations from the earliest days to modern times. The book concludes with some reflections on the cross and its possible meaning in the Muslim faith. Through a careful analysis of selected works by major Christian and Muslim theologians during the formative, medieval, and modern periods of both religions, the book focuses on themes including revelation, prophecy, salvation, redemption, sin, eschatology, law, and love. How did some doctrines become the defining characteristics of one faith and not the other? What is the nature of the theological chasm between Christianity and Islam?Less
Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. This book takes the reader on a personal, theological journey exploring the centrality of Jesus in Christian–Muslim relations. Christian and Muslim scholars have used Jesus and Christological themes for polemical and dialogical conversations from the earliest days to modern times. The book concludes with some reflections on the cross and its possible meaning in the Muslim faith. Through a careful analysis of selected works by major Christian and Muslim theologians during the formative, medieval, and modern periods of both religions, the book focuses on themes including revelation, prophecy, salvation, redemption, sin, eschatology, law, and love. How did some doctrines become the defining characteristics of one faith and not the other? What is the nature of the theological chasm between Christianity and Islam?
