The Qur'an in context : a Christian exploration /

The Qur'an in context : a Christian exploration /

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For most Westerners, the Qur'an is a deeply foreign book. Christians who venture within this sacred scripture of Islam encounter a world where echoes of biblical figures and themes resound. But the Qur'an speaks in accents and forms that defy our expectations. For it captures an oral recit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Mark Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, and imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Qurʼan > History.
Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Coran > Histoire.
Coran > Critique, interprétation, etc.
Qurʼan.
Islam > Origin.
Islam > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Approaching the Qur'an
  • Part I: Qu'ranic context :
  • 2. Muhammad and the origins of Islam
  • 3. Coming to terms with Muhammad's world
  • 4. Reading the Qur'an in its Muhammadan context
  • Part II: Qur'anic worldview :
  • 5. God's immanence and transcendence
  • 6. God's justice and mercy
  • 7. Adam in stereoscopic vision
  • 8. Measuring Adam's fall
  • 9. Divine reprieve
  • 10. Sin and salvation in a world of us against them
  • 11. Prophets, scriptures, revelation
  • 12. Qur'anic spirituality's devotional and social dimensions
  • 13. Qur'anic spirituality's political dimension
  • Part III: Qur'anic Jesus :
  • 14. Jesus' origins and person
  • 15. Jesus' words and works
  • 16. Jesus' death and beyond
  • 17. Jesus' community and scripture
  • Part IV: Christian response :
  • 18. An Arabic Qur'an for the Arab people
  • 19. Could the Qur'an be the Bible's sequel?
  • 20. The Bible and the Qur'an : so close, yet so far.

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