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All Blog Posts With Tag: Islam
Phillis Trible's Texts of Terror: Literary-feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives is a classic text on the sad stories of four women in the Bible: Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed woman, and the daughter of Jephthah. The book is an exegetical analysis of these four scriptural loci, that do not force angry feminism […]
The rise and fall of early Jewish Christianity
Jesus of Nazareth was an Aramaic speaking Jew in Judea, and all of his disciples and prophetic mission were strictly to Jewish people (Matt 15:24) and within Jewish lands (Matt 10:5-6), and he was firmly within Judaism (Matt 5:17-18). Likewise, the first Christians […]
In Christianity: Essence, History, Future, Hans Küng provides two full page charts comparing famous ethical codes from Judaism, Christianity and Islam to demonstrate that these Abrahamic religions share the same "basic common ethic" [1]: the first compares the Ten Commandments (i.e. the Decalogue in Exodus 20:1-21 RSV, c.f. Deuteronomy 5:4-21) […]
A Christian Response to the Qur’an (February 6, 2019)
I read the Qur'an: a new translation by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (Oxford World Classics) in 2018. It's not the first time I've read the Qur'an, because I've been fascinated by Islam for a long time, especially their holy book. Islam is Christianity's younger sibling in the same way as Judaism […]
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Martin Luther’s Preface to the Qur’an (November 15, 2018)
The Qur'an was first translated into Latin in 1153, but the first latin translation published was in 1543 (and 1550) when Theodor Bibliander (1509-1564) published his latin translation of the Qur'an in Basle with the title "The lives and teaching of Muhammad, leader of the Saracrens, and of his successors, and […]
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Abraham Ecumene: Why Judaism, Christianity and Islam Worship the Same God (February 17, 2017)
Abraham Ecumene: Why Judaism, Christianity and Islam Worship the Same God.
Do Judaism, Christianity and Islam worship the same God? The answer is yes because of "Abraham Ecumene". All three of these Abrahamic religions positively affirm Abraham as their father and esteemed prophet: Christians regard Abraham as their spiritual father, and both Judaism […]
Related: abraham, Abraham Ecumene, and Future, Father Abraham, Hans Küng, Henotheism, Henotheist, Ishmael, Islam, Islam: Past, Karl-Josef Kuschel, Present
Abraham Kuyper on Ectypal Knowledge (May 25, 2012)
Abraham Kuyper in his Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology considers the widely discussed question "Is theology a science?" and "In What sense is theology a science?" Kuyper emphasizes through this book the necessity of palingenesia (i.e. regeneration) to have a right understanding of Christianity. In the following long quotation, Kuyper explains that a general comparison […]