Here are quotations from three eminent Christian scholars – all personally believers in the Trinity – but honest enough to put the facts of the gospels before dogma. They are agreed that the gospels of Luke and Matthew know nothing… Read More ›
Scholarship
10 – Scholarly Scandal: the Truth withheld from Christians
‘This is the BIG ONE. Paul examines why the majority of Christians remain ignorant of their scriptures and what the underlying reasons for this ignorance is. A damning exposure into the two faced nature of the Church.’ ‘If you like… Read More ›
What Sunni Islam says about gender atypical individuals
This is a must read article by the respected scholar Ustadh Mobeen Vaid. As the issue of transgenderism becomes increasingly part of liberal discourse and the “transgendered” are increasingly seen as a minority group suffering systematic oppression and in need… Read More ›
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
The King of the Jews
Rev Professor John Hick (1922 – 2012) was a philosopher of religion and theologian born in England who taught in the United States for the larger part of his career. In philosophical theology, he made contributions in the areas of… Read More ›
‘A paradox of world-historical proportions’
Hans-Joachim Schoeps (1909 – 1980) was a German-Jewish historian of religion and religious philosophy. He was professor of religions and religious history at the University of Erlangen.
Daniel Wallace’s Misunderstanding of the Qur’an’s Presevation Refuted
In this 15 minute video, I respond to some common missionary claims made about the presevation of the Qur’an. More specifically, I respond to comments made by Dr. Daniel Wallace. and Allah knows best.
Ravi Zacharias Caught Lying About Credentials Again
In 2015, Ravi Zacharias was outed for manufacturing claims about his scholarship regarding being a visiting scholar at Cambridge University. This led to him acknowledging and then removing the claim from his website. This year, the same person who did… Read More ›
A Man Attested by God: Response to Hurtado
A Man Attested by God: Response to Hurtado March 14, 2017 by J. R. Daniel Kirk Larry Hurtado has posted to his blog the review he read of my book, A Man Attested by God, at the Society of Biblical Literature… Read More ›
The Life of Adam and Eve
Timothy Winter, also known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, is a British Muslim scholar, writer and academic. He is the Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College and lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge University. This email exchange took place yesterday… Read More ›
WHY FACTS DON’T CHANGE OUR MINDS
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason. The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight. Illustration by Gérard DuBois In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group… Read More ›
Prophet’s Marriage to Zaynab: Why James White Needs Muslim Scholars
Yahya Snow comments: ‘James White really needs to sit down with a scholar and have these polemics he got from wild-eyed Christians he used to associate with ironed out. Learn from scholars, not from wild-eyed Islamophobic Christian polemicists who are… 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 ›
Three popular proofs that Jesus was God
Jesus is God because he did amazing miracles! Jesus is God because he forgave sins! Jesus is God because people bowed down and worshiped him!
Slavery and Islam – Part 1: The Problem of Slavery
by Professor Jonathan Brown and Dr Abdullah Hamid Ali (Research Advisor) This is the first in three pieces on the question of Islam and slavery. It demonstrates that the very term ‘slavery’ is so ambiguous as to be functionally useless… Read More ›
ᴴᴰ ISLAM AND HOMOSEXUALITY | By Paul Williams
Lecture delivered at Collingwood Masjid, Tower Hamlets, on Sunday 5th February 2017
Delivered today..
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Why (for Muslims) is there no historical criticism of the Qur’an as there is of the Bible?
The English Muslim writer Gai Eaton was once asked why there is no historical criticism of the Qur’an as there is of the Bible. His answer from the Islamic perspective is illuminating: There is a misunderstanding: the Bible is made… Read More ›
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 ›
Is the Bible perfect in all its historical details and ethical teaching?
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 ›
Jesus remembered: ‘ideological tinkering must have gone on from the start’
Dale C. Allison Jr writes: ‘Some of my divinity students, who find themselves threatened by the discourse of the quest [for the historical Jesus], the chief categories of which derive not from Christian theology but from the modern study of… Read More ›
Interview with Angelika Neuwirth “The claim that Islam lacks an Enlightenment is an age-old cliche”
Interview with Angelika Neuwirth “The claim that Islam lacks an Enlightenment is an age-old cliche” In this interview with Anna Alvi and Alia Hübsch, Prof. Angelika Neuwirth says that the claim that Islam lacks an Enlightenment is an age old… Read More ›
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