| Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology Contributor(s): Thomas, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004169350 ISBN-13: 9789004169357 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $229.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: Through excerpts from works of four theologians, this book shows how tenth century Muslims employed Christian doctrines to confirm the correctness of their own theology, and how Christianity had stopped attracting serious attention from Muslims as a rival to Islam. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - General - Religion | Biblical Studies - General - Religion | Ecumenism & Interfaith |
| Dewey: 297.293 |
| LCCN: 2008031328 |
| Series: History of Christian-Muslim Relations |
| Physical Information: 400 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By the tenth century Islamic theology had become an integrated system by which theologians constructed sophisticated accounts of the nature of the world and God's relationship with it. They also used it to establish proofs that Islam was the only rationally tenable form of belief, building these in part on proofs of the illogicalities in other faiths, including Christianity. Through excerpts from key works of the theologians al-Nashi' al-Akbar, al-Maturidi, al-Baqillani and ʿAbd al-Jabbar, this book shows how Muslim theologians in this period made use of Christian doctrines as examples of misguided thinking to help confirm the correctness of their own theology, and how among Muslim theologians Christianity had ceased to attract serious attention as a rival to Islam. |