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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. Examining together scripture texts and theological reflections from both traditions, they show that the oneness of God is taken as axiomatic in both, and also that affirming God's unity has raised complex theological questions for both. The two faiths are not identical, but what divides them is not the number of gods they believe in.
The latest volume of proceedings of The Building Bridges Seminar—a gathering of scholar-practitioners of Islam and Christianity that meets annually for the purpose of deep study of scripture and other texts carefully selected for their pertinence to the year's chosen theme—this book begins with a retrospective on the seminar's first fifteen years and concludes with an account of deliberations and discussions among participants, thereby providing insight into the model of vigorous and respectful dialogue that characterizes this initiative.
Contributors include Richard Bauckham, Sidney Griffith, Christoph Schwöbel, Janet Soskice, Asma Afsaruddin, Maria Dakake, Martin Nguyen, and Sajjad Rizvi. To encourage further dialogical study, the volume includes those scripture passages and other texts on which their essays comment. A unique resource for scholars, students, and professors of Christianity and Islam.
Contents
Participants in Building Bridges Seminar 2016
Preface: Fifteen Years of Construction: a retrospective on the first decade-and-a-half of the Building Bridges SeminarLucinda Mosher
Introduction
Part I: The Oneness of God in the Biblical Witness
Complexities Surrounding God's Oneness in Biblical MonotheismRichard Bauckham
Bridging the Chasm between the Divine and the Human: A Muslim Response to Richard BauckhamMaria Massi Dakake
Texts from the Bible
Part II: The Oneness of God in the Qur'ān and Hadīth
Monotheism in IslamAsma Afsaruddin
The Complexity of Monotheism in Islam: A Christian Response to Asma AfsaruddinSidney Griffith
Texts from the Qurān and Hadīth
Part III: Grappling With the Unity Question in the Elaboration of Christian Doctrine
The One and the Three in Christian Worship and Doctrine: Engaging with the Question of Divine Unity in the Elaboration of Christian DoctrineChristoph Schwöbel
Of Storytellers and Storytelling: A Muslim Response to Christoph Schwöbel Martin Nguyen
Texts from the Christian Tradition
Part IV: Safeguarding Tawhīd in the Elaboration of the Islamic Tradition
God is One but Unlike Any Other: Theological Argumentation on Tawhīd in IslamSajjad Rizvi
Christianity, Trinity, and the One God: A Response to Sajjad RizviJanet Soskice
Texts from the Islamic Tradition
Part V: Reflections
Dialogue in Northern Virginia: Reflections on Building Bridges Seminar 2016Lucinda Mosher
IndexAbout the Editors