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Certain Sympathy of Scriptures: Biblical and Quranic
Kenneth Cragg
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Description for Certain Sympathy of Scriptures: Biblical and Quranic
Paperback. The crucial sequence of the Scriptures - alike in the Bible and the Qur'an - is through a cosmos created, for a creaturehood entrusted, by virtue of revelatory direction, mediated by prophet-hoods. This book explores the issues that unify Christianity and Islam. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG; HRH; HRLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 242.
Can there be genuine sympathy' between the Bible and the Qur'an? Their peoples' have been at odds so long, disputing their texts and discounting their credentials. Scholars from both faiths have contrived intriguing comparison of narratives about Abraham, Joseph or Moses but with little relevance to the contemporary scene and its demand for religious converse and sanity. "A Certain Sympathy of Scriptures" attempts something more central to the essential interest' of both Scriptures, more cogent in this 21st century (the 15th Islam). It is a concern with three shared dimension: The divine will for this cosmos of created order; its ... Read more
Can there be genuine sympathy' between the Bible and the Qur'an? Their peoples' have been at odds so long, disputing their texts and discounting their credentials. Scholars from both faiths have contrived intriguing comparison of narratives about Abraham, Joseph or Moses but with little relevance to the contemporary scene and its demand for religious converse and sanity. "A Certain Sympathy of Scriptures" attempts something more central to the essential interest' of both Scriptures, more cogent in this 21st century (the 15th Islam). It is a concern with three shared dimension: The divine will for this cosmos of created order; its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845190125
SKU
V9781845190125
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About Kenneth Cragg
Kenneth Cragg was first in Jerusalem in 1939, and subsequently became deeply involved in areas of faith between Semitic religions under the stress of current politics. He later pursued doctoral studies in Oxford where he first graduated and became Prizeman' in Theology and Moral Philosophy, and where he is now an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College. He was a Bishop ... Read more
Reviews for Certain Sympathy of Scriptures: Biblical and Quranic
"By endeavouring to trace some form of sympathy - rather than pursue an analytical comparison as such - between the Bible and the Quran, Cragg offers both a model as well as a resource for the further pursuit of a Christian - Muslim theological dialogue that centres on that point of contact with the divine which both unites and divides ... Read more