Christianity and Islam together shape the beliefs of more than half the world's population, yet most believers understand strikingly little about the other faith beyond secondhand impression and stereotype. This book offers a clear, balanced comparison of the two religions, tracing their shared origins in the ancient world through the theological questions that still divide them today.
Across seven chapters and an introduction, the book examines how each faith began, what each teaches about God and salvation, how the Bible and the Quran came to exist, how prayer and fasting structure daily life, how law and family life are organized, and fourteen centuries of shared history that includes both conflict and genuine coexistence. A final chapter turns to what the two traditions hold in common: shared ethical commitments, shared prophetic figures, and a shared human search for meaning.
Neither a defense of one faith over the other nor an attempt to blur real differences into vague agreement, this book treats both traditions on their own terms, presenting disagreement plainly where it exists and common ground honestly where it can be found. Readers will come away with a grounded understanding of what more than four billion people actually believe, how those beliefs took shape, and why two faiths with so much shared ancestry arrived at such different answers to the same fundamental questions.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Christianity and Islam together shape the beliefs of more than half the world's population, yet most believers understand strikingly little about the other faith beyond secondhand impression and stereotype. This book offers a clear, balanced comparison of the two religions, tracing their shared origins in the ancient world through the theological questions that still divide them today.Across seven chapters and an introduction, the book examines how each faith began, what each teaches about God and salvation, how the Bible and the Quran came to exist, how prayer and fasting structure daily life, how law and family life are organized, and fourteen centuries of shared history that includes both conflict and genuine coexistence. A final chapter turns to what the two traditions hold in common: shared ethical commitments, shared prophetic figures, and a shared human search for meaning.Neither a defense of one faith over the other nor an attempt to blur real differences into vague agreement, this book treats both traditions on their own terms, presenting disagreement plainly where it exists and common ground honestly where it can be found. Readers will come away with a grounded understanding of what more than four billion people actually believe, how those beliefs took shape, and why two faiths with so much shared ancestry arrived at such different answers to the same fundamental questions. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798174326330
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