Christians, Muslims, and Jesus

"Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and thoughtful book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theological journey exploring the centrality of Jesus i...

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Main Author: Siddiqui, Mona (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2013
In:Year: 2013
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Christianity / Islam / Interfaith dialogue / Jesus Christus
Further subjects:B Christianity and other religions Islam
B Islam Relations Christianity
B Islam Relations Christianity
B Jesus Christ Messiahship
B Islam Doctrines
B Theology, Doctrinal
B Jesus Christ Islamic interpretations
B Jesus Christ Islamic interpretations
B Islam Doctrines
B Jesus Christ Messiahship
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Summary:"Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and thoughtful book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her 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 author concludes with her own reflections on the cross and its possible meaning in her 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, Siddiqui 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? With a nuanced and carefully considered analysis of critical doctrines the author provides a refreshingly honest counterpoint to contemporary polemical arguments and makes a compelling contribution to reasoned interfaith conversation."--Jacket
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (S. [268]- 275) and index
ISBN:0300169701