Rewarding Encounters: Islam and the Comparative Theologies of Kenneth Cragg and Wilfred Cantwell Smith - Softcover
Synopsis
What happens if Christian theology is taken as a point of departure for understanding Islam? Will such a 'fore-understanding' help or foreclose an attempt to understand Muslims and Islam? On the other hand, how is one's Christian faith informed by such an effort to understand? Is it changed by this meeting of faiths in some way or other? Rewarding Encounters aims to consider these questions as the writings of Kenneth Cragg and Wilfred Cantwell Smith are explored and interpreted. In a close-up study of their works, Dr Maeland develops significant insights into interreligious hermeneutics and Trinitarian theology. Thus, Maeland demonstrates how Christian theology both provides resources for understanding Muslims and Islam, and at the same time how it is deeply informed, and more deeply understood, by such an encounter.
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