I am pleased to announce that Richard Zetter has accepted my invitation to be an author and contributor to Blogging Theology. He describes himself as an evangelical Christian and a Calvinist. He has just completed post-graduate research at the University of… Read More ›
Professor James Dunn of Durham university, possibly the leading New Testament scholar today in Britain, writes ‘there was no real evidence in the earliest Jesus tradition of what could fairly be called a consciousness of divinity’ Christology in the Making,… Read More ›
reblogged from masud.co.uk Abdal Wadod Shalabi has remarked that a society only becomes truly decadent when “decadence” as a principle is never referred to in public debate. Prior generations of Muslims and Christians were forever fretting about their own unworthiness… Read More ›
Thanks to Imran for bringing this new work to my attention. I’ve just ordered it from Amazon. It looks amazing. ‘The first textbook of its kind in the English-speaking world, Revelation draws on the most authoritative sources to present a… Read More ›
Among the comedies of misunderstanding which can arise between people of different cultures none is more frustrating than the situation in which two people say the same thing in almost the same words and mean quite different things by what… Read More ›
I didn’t buy this but its a translation of Harry Potter into ancient Greek! I already have this book but it’s an essential reference work. The best of its kind. This book documents the diverse and competing Christianities in the early… Read More ›
On the question of the historical value of John’s Gospel there is probably one of the biggest gulfs between New Testament scholarship and the ‘man in the pew’. In preaching and devotional Bible study the assumption is regularly made that all… Read More ›
‘Who doubts that authors who themselves have a high christology tend to write books in which the historical Jesus himself has a high christology? Or that those who are uncomfortable with Nicea and Chalcedon more often than not unearth a… Read More ›
(Part 3) This article is the third of a series of articles (see the first and second) that are in part a refutation of Christian polemics and in part a discussion of recent academic articles by top experts in the… Read More ›
The book is a published edition of his PhD thesis and like all of Professor Brown’s work is readable and accessible to the layman. Read it for free by clicking on the cover.
(Part 2) This article is the second of a series of articles (the first can be read here) that are in part a refutation of Christian polemics, and in part a discussion of recent academic articles by top experts in… Read More ›
In terms of Western philosophy I am an unapologetic Idealist and Keith Ward is my favourite living philosopher. This article explains what the Idealist hypothesis is all about and why materialism is just not up to scratch. The Idealist View… Read More ›
This book was cited in the recent debate ‘What Does the Quran Teach About The Bible? David Wood vs Shabir Ally’. I am gorging myself on it now. Review to follow inshallah… Sidney H. Griffith is Professor in the Department of… Read More ›
‘But if we are to submit our speculations to the text [the four canonical gospels] and build our theology only with the bricks provided by careful exegesis we cannot say with any confidence that Jesus knew himself to be divine,… Read More ›
Some Muslims were distributing this new book free of charge this afternoon at Speakers Corner. It looks very good! This book has its own dedicated website
What should be the Christian attitude towards Muslims? Please consider and live these verses in your everyday lives: Luke 6:31 – As you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. 1 Thessalonians 5:15 – See that no one repays… Read More ›
The author of this new book Muhammad Asad (not to be confused with the celebrated, and deceased, Quran translator of the same name) has produced an erudite and well written book. Asad describes his objective as ‘not to indulge in… Read More ›
To my knowledge there is no academic studies of what the messiahship of Jesus means in the Qur’an in comparison with the messiahship in Judaism and Christianity. This book: The Mystery of the Messiah: The Messiahship of Jesus in the Qur’an, New Testament,… Read More ›
Dr Shabir Ally discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the new Study Quran (hereafter SQ) in an absorbing review on the Quran Speaks programme. He highlights what he see as a serious deficiency in the SQ’s discussion of women rights… Read More ›
Dr Shabir Ally discusses the strengths and weaknesses in this phenomenal new Study Quran See my review of Shabir’s discussion here
The Study Quran is a new English translation produced by a team of distinguished Islamic Studies scholars. It includes commentary, maps, essays, and more. The video explains..
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