Christian Theology and Islam

by Michael Root (Editor), James J Buckley Dr (Editor)

Overview

How can Christians committed to the classical Christian tradition (Evangelicals and Catholics) address the issues raised by contemporary Islam? Along with and even prior to much needed dialogue between Christians and Muslims, Christians need to ask themselves how their Scriptures and traditions might bear on such dialogue. Do the divisions among Christians (Catholic and Evangelical) fracture the classical Christian tradition in ways that undercut "Christian"-Muslim dialogue before it starts? Or does that classical tradition provide resources for thinking out and working out their own divisions in ways that will ready them for authentic conversation with Muslim brothers and sisters in Christ? And what does this tradition have to teach us about what Christians can and must learn from Muslims about their own traditions? The essays in this volume begin to address these questions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610978149
Publisher:	Cascade Books
Publication date:	11/05/2013
Series:	Pro Ecclesia , #2
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Michael Root is Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America and Executive Director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology. He was formerly the Director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg, France.

James J. Buckley is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. He has recently contributed to and edited (with Frederick Bauerschmidt and Trent Pomplun) The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism (2007). He is associate director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Michael Root and James J. Buckley
1. The Unity and Trinity of God. Christian Doctrinal Development in Response to the Challenge of Islam - Sidney H. Griffith
2. Abu Ra’itah al-Takriti and God’s Divine Pedagogy - Sandra Keating
3. Apology, or its Evasion? Some Ninth-Century Arabic Christian Texts on Discerning the True Religion - Mark N. Swanson
4.Christian theology in conversation with Judaism and Islam - David B. Burrell, C.S.C.
5. The Missing Peace of Evangelical Missiology. Peacemaking and Respectful Witness - Rick Love
6. In Search of New Approaches to Inter- and Intra-Religious Christian and Muslim Debates - Nelly van Doorn-Harder.
Short descriptions of authors and editors.
Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The importance of this book is that it brings together the voices of Catholic and evangelical Christians on an issue in which they have so much in common. . . . This book shows that there have been times in which Christians took the challenge of Islamic theology seriously, and it serves as a foretaste for new forms of Christian theology in conversation with Islam in the near future."
—Pim Valkenberg, The Catholic University of America

Editorial Reviews

"The importance of this book is that it brings together the voices of Catholic and evangelical Christians on an issue in which they have so much in common. . . . This book shows that there have been times in which Christians took the challenge of Islamic theology seriously, and it serves as a foretaste for new forms of Christian theology in conversation with Islam in the near future."
—Pim Valkenberg, The Catholic University of America

From the Publisher

The merit of this book consists in presenting effective systems for approaching an interfaith dialogue with Islam.

23:1, 2016 - Alessandro Giostra

Full of scholarly detail…the gem in the book is an essay on 'The Missing Peace of Evangelical Missiology' in which the author argues that the Christian's mandates of peace-making and evangelising not only can go hand in hand but must be pursued together. This has application well beyond the area of Christian-Muslim dialogue which is the focus of the book.

vol 113 issue 2, Summer 2015 - Gertrud Sollars

Christian Theology and Islam is a fascinatingly ecclectic book.[…]This would be a usefull addition to the shelves of a library or specialist scholar, but anyone with any interest in engaging with muslims should buy the book just for chapters three and five.

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Christian Theology and Islam is a fascinatingly ecclectic book.[…]This would be a usefull addition to the shelves of a library or specialist scholar, but anyone with any interest in engaging with muslims should buy the book just for chapters three and five.

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