Jason Thomas starts with the idea of the Holy Ghost in Islam and Paul Williams compares Dante’s Divine Comedy with the early Church understanding of hell/purgatory and then contrasts this with the Islamic variant! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=816GzUzmk-c
History
Food for thought
Dale C. Allison is an American New Testament scholar, historian of Early Christianity, and Christian theologian. He is currently the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary.
A top historian of Islamic history confirms the historical reliability of the Muslim dating of the Quran and events in early Islamic history.
A top expert on Arabic and Islamic history confirms the historical reliability of the Muslim dating of the Quran and events in early Islamic history. He cites some fascinating and extremely early historical evidence. https://youtu.be/sMX1GpL9ahQ Hugh Nigel Kennedy is a… Read More ›
Jay Smith and the Keeree-Art
In a recent Hyde Park encounter with Br. Muhammad Hijab, my friend and colleague, Joseph Jay Smith of Pfander, made some plainly absurd and false claims, among them: Claims that all the NT manuscripts are the same, which is demonstrably… Read More ›
Rabbi Ishmael on the sons of Ishmael
It is worth to mention that some Jewish classical exegetical text such as Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer פרקי דרבי אליעזר which is attributed to a first century jewish sage, a well known tannaite Rabbi Ishmael Eliezer ben Elisha who went by the title Kohen ha-Gadol /the great high priest contains… Read More ›
A Pre Modern Defense of the Hadiths on Sodomy
Click image to download PDF file of the paper by Professor Brown.
Did Jesus Talk about Homosexuality?
An interesting article by Scot McKnight a distinguished American New Testament scholar and Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, IL. Reblogged from his Jesus Creed. One is no longer surprised to read in discussions about same-sex relations —… Read More ›
The Pilgrim’s Bible
I have just spent a delightful evening with a neighbour in Southern France. He is an English antiquarian book collector and lives in a sumptuous residence (as you can see below). He showed me his 1608 edition of the Geneva Bible,… Read More ›
Historical Jesus studies and the illusion of consensus
Dale C. Allison is an American New Testament scholar, historian of Early Christianity, and Christian theologian who is currently Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Origin of Quran according to academic historians: a scholarly revolution
Christian polemicists against Islam tend to support revisionist theories about the origin of the Quran. Here is what the latest academic scholarship has to say about such ideas: source
An Easter enquiry: ‘How are we made right with God according to Jesus?’
This Easter Christians ponder a story that has been told over and over for the past 2000 years: that the Jewish Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, made a sacrifice of his own life to make mankind right with God (variants of… Read More ›
Religious minorities are often depicted as oppressed and vulnerable victims of their Muslim rulers. This portrayal, however, is far from accurate.
Religious minorities are often depicted as oppressed and vulnerable victims of their Muslim rulers. This portrayal, however, is far from accurate. This brief paper seeks to reorient our understanding of the rights and responsibilities religious minorities possessed under Muslim rule…. Read More ›
Mustafa Akyol – The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims
The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) invited Mustafa Akyol on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, to deliver a talk on his newly published book, The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews became a Prophet of the Muslims. Mustafa… Read More ›
Melchizedek is called Yahweh in the Dead Sea Scrolls
My apologies for the poor quality of the images taken on my iPhone earlier. These are taken from the invaluable scholarly resource A Man Attested by God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels by Dr J.R. Daniel Kirk. Many… Read More ›
Jesus, the Law, and a “New” Covenant
‘Jesus of Nazareth was a Torah-observant Jewish teacher whose followers, after his death, came to adopt a variety of attitudes toward the Law of Moses. Some of them insisted on strict observance; others argued that only parts of the Law… Read More ›
Paul – faithful follower of Jesus or inventor of a new religion?
This is an excellent article just published on Many Prophets, One Message – A Call to The Truth The Old Testament is filled with numerous commandments (‘mitzvot’ in Hebrew), 613 in total to be precise, and in Judaism one’s standing as… Read More ›
If Aquinas is a philosopher then so are the Islamic theologians
By Peter Adamson a professor of philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Maybe I’m just an optimist, but I think people today mostly acknowledge the importance and originality of philosophy in the Islamic world. Would any scholar now say in… Read More ›
The Dhimmis | Dr Jonathan Brown
Mahin, SIM and Sh. Amir talk to Dr Jonathan Brown about the controversial subject of the Dhimmis, Hadith, Albani, Slavery, Muslim Alliances and the MLI-BDS Rift. Published on 19 Jan 2017.
Yale: “The Synoptic Gospels do not portray Jesus as preexistent”
This will come as a shock to most people to learn that New Testament scholarship is broadly in agreement that the gospels of Matthew and Luke do not portray Jesus as preexistent and have no awareness of the notion of the… Read More ›
The Republic of King Jesus – Professor Alec Ryrie
A fascinating lecture about extreme Christianity
Christian theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus and Emanuel Hirsch
In the days after World War II, a convenient story was told of church leaders and ordinary Christians that defied the Nazis from the beginning. Recent research has uncovered a very different story. Rather than resisting, the greater part of… Read More ›
The New Testament Today
The New Testament Today – What is it? Where did it come from? Can we rely on it? These questions and more are answered, as our journey into 2017 begins. Let this year, be a year of guidance for our… Read More ›
How Jesus became a god. Two Yale professors describe the historical process
Last month I posted about an academic work I am reading by two of America’s leading biblical scholars entitled: King and Messiah as Son of God, Divine, Human, and Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature by Adela Yarbro… Read More ›
How Intolerant is Islamic Law? Dr Jonathan A. C. Brown
https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_7bknqn66 In September 2016, the Alwaleed Centre was delighted to welcome renowned scholar and Director of the Alwaleed Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, Dr Jonathan A. C. Brown to Edinburgh. Dr Brown is author of the acclaimed monographs Hadith: Muhammad’s… Read More ›
Dr Jonathan AC Brown – The Single Greatest Argument
Dr Brown says what needs to be said..
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