Triune Relationality
eBook - ePub

Triune Relationality

A Trinitarian Response to Islamic Monotheism

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eBook - ePub

Triune Relationality

A Trinitarian Response to Islamic Monotheism

About this book

For centuries, Christians and Muslims have engaged each other in debate and critique. A key area of disagreement is the nature of God: Is God a Trinity or absolutely one? To promote interfaith dialogue, Christians must understand the history of the conversation and also articulate the doctrine of the Trinity in reasonable, compelling ways.

In this New Explorations in Theology volume, Sherene Nicholas Khouri offers both historical and constructive responses to Islamic objections to the doctrine of the Trinity. Khouri considers arguments from Arabic Christian theologians and philosophers in the eighth to tenth centuries, primarily John of Damascus, Theodore Ab? Qurrah, and Ya?y? Ibn cAd?. When Muslims expanded beyond the Arabic peninsula, Christians in occupied regions were spurred to defend the Trinity against the Islamic understanding of taw?id, the absolute oneness of Allah, and against misconceptions of Christian belief.

Khouri then applies the insights of these little-known thinkers to current theology and apologetics conversations. She makes the case for appealing to the common ground of God as the greatest conceived being, then arguing that such a being must be relational in nature. While Christians today debate models of the Trinity with each other and with Muslims, they can be confident that Christians throughout history have believed in triune relationality and found in the doctrine of the Trinity an invitation to personal relationship with the divine.

Featuring new monographs with cutting-edge research, New Explorations in Theology provides a platform for constructive, creative work in the areas of systematic, historical, philosophical, biblical, and practical theology.

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Information

Publisher
IVP Academic
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781514008850
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Theology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Gary R. Habermas
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 The Rise of the Abbasids and the Golden Age of Islam
  9. 2 The Iconoclastic Effect of the Qur'anic Perception of the Trinity
  10. 3 The Christian Explanation of the Trinity in the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Centuries
  11. 4 Western Contemporary Explanations of the Trinity
  12. 5 A Contemporary Christian Answer to Islamic Objections Against the Trinity
  13. Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. General Index
  17. Scripture Index
  18. Praise for Triune Relationality
  19. About the Author
  20. New Explorations in Theology Series
  21. Like this book?
  22. Copyright