I recently purchased this book in the airport on my way back from holiday. The title looks interesting and the author is a Royal Military College of Canada professor. As opposed to standard islamophobia narrative that only Islam and Prophet Muhammad is… Read More ›
Safiyah is a Scottish convert to Islam. Her blog posts are worth reading. Click to enter..
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 ›
By Peter Hainesworth, reproduced from the OUP Blog Dante can seem overwhelming. T.S. Eliot’s peremptory declaration that ‘Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them: there is no third’ is more likely to be off-putting these days than inspiring…. Read More ›
This book is recommended by John J Collins, Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Interpretation at Yale University who has written the Forward (see extract below). It arrived at my office this afternoon. I immediately jumped to chapter 8 Jesus Was Wrong as… Read More ›
This volume contains an article recently mentioned on this blog The Hebrew Bible in Islam by Walid A. Saleh. It appears there is much else to devour.
Surprisingly, there are a number of places in the Jewish Scriptures (aka the Hebrew Bible & Old Testament) where beings other than Yahweh are called divine or “God”. I draw on the extensive discussion of key passages in King and Messiah as Son… Read More ›
I am currently reading an academic work 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 Collins and John J. Collins… Read More ›
Leo Tolstoy, a Russian novelist, died #OnThisDay in 1910
The Quran makes a very interesting claim: ‘God has sealed them [the Jews] in their disbelief, so they believe only a little – and because they disbelieved and uttered a terrible slander against Mary, and said, ‘We have killed the… Read More ›
An overview of the Hebrew Bible in the Islamic religious tradition. A must read article just made available on-line. download for free here: the_hebrew_bible_in_islam_in_the_cambrid-1
This is a fascinating book by two world-class scholars at Yale University exploring the divinity of Jesus in the Bible. This work is highly acclaimed by other scholars in the field. I recommend it to Muslims doing Islamic apologetics and… Read More ›
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. . . . You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill… Read More ›
A helpful (but not infallible) guide
By Dale Tuggy on October 17, 2016. Reblogged from Trinities Do the gospels according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke discreetly but clearly imply that Jesus is God? This has become a popular reading lately among evangelicals, thanks in large part… Read More ›
When Reza Aslan’s bestseller Zealot came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn’t addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of Christianity. In fact, Ross Douthat of The New York Times wrote that “if Aslan had actually… Read More ›
Sacred Freedom – Western Liberalist Ideologies in the Light of Islam Sacred Freedom contains a concise and frank examination of the legitimacy of atheism, humanism, pluralism, democracy and secularism as guiding ideologies for humankind. Discussing the consequences of a pluralistic… Read More ›
by J. R. Daniel Kirk These famous words by C. S. Lewis beautifully encapsulate the Christianity of my childhood. They underscore how central Jesus’s divinity has been to the church’s confession of faith for the past sixteen hundred years. And… Read More ›
“The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to “think for himself” and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions… Read More ›
review by Kermit Zarley Josh McDowell is an evangelical Christian, a public evangelist, and an apologist. For decades, he was a traveling speaker for the para-church organization Campus Crusade for Christ, that ministers mostly to college students. I was involved… Read More ›
Thanks to Richard Zetter for lending me this book this afternoon.
I am pleased to announce that Denis Giron has accepted my invitation to be an author on Blogging Theology. He is a Roman Catholic with an expertise in Biblical languages. He is also a Statistical Analyst at the United Nations in New… Read More ›
This is an insightful exposé of the metaphysical foundation of socialism
I have chosen this selection from books I have read over the years. Beginners: Abdel Haleem, trans. The Qurʼan (New York: Oxford UP, 2005). Laurence Brown, The First and Final Commandment, A search for truth in revelation within the Abrahamic religions… Read More ›
I am pleased to announce that Ijaz Ahmad and Yahya Snow have accepted my invitation to be authors and contributors to Blogging Theology. You can read the updated list of writers here: Introducing the Blogging Theology writers (old and new)
I’ve been out and about at a few bookshops this evening. I’m studying usul al-fiqh at the moment and this little book looked rather good so I snapped it up I know the feeling… At first I thought this was… Read More ›
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