Jesus through Muslim Eyes

Richard Shumack (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2020
SPCK Publishing (Verlag)
9780281081936 (ISBN)

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Dr Shumack explores Muslim belief in Jesus.

The discussion landscape between Christians and Muslims is constantly changing and developing. Increasingly subtle and sophisticated Muslim positions on Jesus emerge regularly. The latest Muslim thinker to rise to prominence in the wider public arena is Mustafa Akyol. His ideas about Jesus, while largely derivative, are crafted into novel and appealing arguments. To date, there has been no satisfactory Christian engagement with his ideas. Written by a specialist in Muslim thought, Jesus through Muslim Eyes offers a unique apologetic that combines history, theology and critical thinking in a way that cuts across both traditional and contemporary debates.

“With Christians, we (Muslims) agree that Jesus was born of a virgin, that he was the Messiah, and that he is the Word of God. Surely, we do not worship Jesus, like Christians do. Yet still, we can follow him. In fact, given our grim malaise and his shining wisdom, we need to follow him.” – Mustafa Akyol (The Islamic Jesus, St Martin’s Press)

Can Muslims, like Akyol, meaningfully claim Jesus as the Messiah and the Word of God? And how can Christians respond to such claims?

Richard Schumach considers what Muslims believe about Jesus; what history can tell us about Jesus; where Muslims (and Christians) get their beliefs from; and why Jesus makes sense in Christianity, but not in Islam.

Dr Richard Shumack lives in Sydney, Australia. He is a philosopher of religion specialising in Muslim and Christian belief. He is the Director of the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at Melbourne School of Theology, the Academic Director of the RZIM Understanding and Answering Islam program, and a research fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity (CPX), Sydney, Australia. Richard has published many articles in the Australian media. His previous books include The Wisdom of Islam and the Foolishness of Christianity (Island View Publishing).

Part 1
GETTING TO KNOW THE
MUSLIM JESUS
1 Jesus of Arabia 3
2 The son of Mary: the Qur'anic Jesus 8
3 The 'pious servant': the traditional Jesus 13
4 The 'good teacher': the Sufi Jesus 20
5 Yeshua: the contemporary Muslim Jesus 26
Part 2
CORRUPTING JESUS?
6 Conspiracy 33
7 The Christians 38
8 The Apostles 42
9 The Council of Nicaea 49
10 Paul 53
11 The Ebionites 61
12 The Gospel of the Hebrews 65
13 The historical Muslim Jesus 71
Part 3
LOCATING JESUS
14 Place of birth 77
15 Names 80
16 Behaviour 86
17 Speech 90
18 More than he seems... 97
19 At Home 99
Part 4
FOLLOWING JESUS
20 Common roads? 105
21 The virtuous path of the Muslim Jesus 110
22 Who can follow the Muslim Jesus? 115
23 The 'impossible' road of the Christian Jesus 123
24 Different roads 129
25 At a crossroads 134
Epilogue: The real Jesus 141
Select bibliography 142
Endnotes 143

Erscheinungsdatum	31.12.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9780281081936 / 9780281081936
Zustand	Neuware