Allah: A Christian Response - Hardcover

Miroslav Volf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061927074 ISBN 13: 9780061927072

Publisher: HarperOne, 2011

Synopsis

A Christian theologian argues that Muslims and Christians must work together to find common ground before their clashes over religion again turn into an all-to-real war. 25,000 first printing.

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From the Back Cover:

Three and a half billion people—the majority of the world’s population—profess Christianity or Islam. Renowned scholar Miroslav Volf’s controversial proposal is that Muslims and Christians do worship the same God—the only God. As Volf reveals, warriors in the “clash of civilizations” have used “religions”—each with its own god and worn as a badge of identity—to divide and oppose, failing to recognize the one God whom Muslims and Christians understand in partly different ways.

Writing from a Christian perspective, and in dialogue with leading Muslim scholars and leaders from around the world, Volf reveals surprising points of intersection and overlap between these two faith traditions:

· What the Qur’an denies about God as the Holy Trinity has been denied by every great teacher of the church in the past and ought to be denied by Christians today.

· A person can be both a practicing Muslim and 100 percent Christian without denying core convictions of belief and practice.

· How two faiths, worshipping the same God, can work toward the common good under a single government.

Volf explains the hidden agendas behind today’s news stories as he thoughtfully considers the words of religious leaders and parses the crucial passages from the Bible and the Qur’an that continue to ignite passion.Allah offers a constructive way forward by reversing the “our God vs. their God” premise that destroys bridges between neighbors and nations, magnifies fears, and creates strife.

About the Author:

Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and the founding director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. "One of the most celebrated theologians of our time," (Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury), Volf is a leading expert on religion and conflict. His recent books include Against the Tide: Love in a Time of Petty Dreams and Persisting Enmities, and Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity Otherness, and Reconciliation---winner of the 2002 Grawmeyer Award in Religion.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061927074
• ISBN 13: 9780061927072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256