Comparative Religion category: 1410 books

Conventional wisdom would have it that believing in one God is straightforward; that Muslims are expert at monotheism, but that Christians complicate it, weaken it, or perhaps even abandon it altogether by speaking of the Trinity. In this book, Muslim and Christian scholars challenge that opinion....

Tradition and Modernity focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking especially at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.

As globalization proceeds at an ever increasing and more unrelenting pace, relations among the world’s religions are taking on both a new visibility and a new urgency. Christian theologians and others intent on innovative formulations in the theology of religions are making interreligious dialogue...

Dear Prospective Reader, This booklet will to be of interest to everyone who wants to be higher educated for the 21st century, since it addresses a fundamental lacuna in today’s higher education worldwide. It's also likely to be a necessity for anyone associated with any multi-ethnic,...

Over two thousand years ago a being was tasked with delivering an important message to a planet, in a distant galaxy. That being was called Jesus. There was a problem. The period in which Jesus entered that world meant His message would not be understood for over two millennia. The solution. Find...

El mormonismo enseña que el hombre puede llegar a ser Dios, que la caída del hombre fue una bendición y que las Escrituras aún se están escribiendo hoy día. ¿Cuál es la base de la vida eterna para los mormones? ¿Por qué los mormones dan significados totalmente diferentes a los términos  cristianos...

This book argues that interfaith dialogue begins with the basic goal of improving Christian relationships with people of other religious traditions. But gradually we become aware that this new ministry, when taken seriously, presents many new challenges, forcing us to reexamine our approach to religious...

Encounters with difference are the measure of faith, as how a person of one faith approaches persons of other faiths reveals the heart of religious conviction. Christian congregations are often ill-equipped to respond to differing religious perspectives. Most are hesitant, many are prejudiced. In...

Theological Issues in Christian-Muslim Dialogue addresses the main theological topics of discussion that appear in Christian-Muslim engagement. Many of these topics originate in the medieval period and the earliest encounters between Christians and Muslims. Even so, the topics persist in contemporary...

This book is about hope—hope for the human condition. It is a hope rooted in the wisdom of four great spiritual traditions: Jewish, Christian, Sufi, and Dakota. Despite their different religious and doctrinal backgrounds, on a spiritual level these four traditions demonstrate an amazing agreement...

Our country has changed. Our founding principles are being over-written with a post-modern perspective. A world view where truth is no longer objective, but subjective. Man defining his own truth. This view is taught to our children. We hear it from our politicians in both parties. It is espoused...

Kimberley Patton examines the environmental crises facing the world's oceans from the perspective of religious history. Much as the ancient Greeks believed, and Euripides wrote, that "the sea can wash away all evils," a wide range of cultures have sacralized the sea, trusting in its power...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Theologie - Islamische Religionswissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Zentrum für Islamische Theologie), Veranstaltung: Koranexegese, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Unnachahmlichkeit des Qur'?n wird mit dem arabischen...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Missions-, Ökumene- und Religionswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Heilige Stätten in den Religionen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Ayers Rock oder Ulu?u, wie er...