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In this careful double exposition of the Bible and Islam, Ida Glaser and Hannah Kay emphasise godly attitudes, loving action and a deep appreciation of God’s grace and goodness as essential traits of any Christian. The authors walk the reader through two underlying frameworks necessary to think biblically about Islam. The first is to understand the dynamic of religion in people’s lives through Genesis 4-11’s account of the world after ‘the fall’, and hence to understand Bible stories within the religious contexts in which they occurred. The second is at the heart of the book – the idea that Islam inverts the exaltation of Christ above the prophets in the narrative of the transfiguration in Luke 9 and 10. Examining the themes of the land, zeal, law and the cross in these chapters of Luke’s Gospel and the Old Testament stories of Moses and Elijah, we are led to better understand the Bible, Islam and God’s heart towards Muslims.

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Publié par	Langham Creative Projects
Date de parution	14 février 2016
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781783689118
Langue	English

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Dr Ida Glaser and Hannah Kay, scholars of both the Qur’an and the Bible, have expressed their thoughts in their new book Thinking Biblically about Islam: Genesis, Transfiguration, Transformation comprehensively and coherently. Readers of both faiths will find it amazingly relevant. It is a superb and deeply theological analysis of the Bible and the Qur’an. This book looks at some of the main themes of the Bible and the Qur’an in a deeper sense. So it will be useful both in the academic arena and also for general readers. The book reminds us how essential it is to explore and know the other faith and I hope it will help build bridges between people of different faiths. The writers’ aim is clearly not to create confrontation but to promote dialogue about admitted truth between the followers of the two faiths. Thus I believe that this book will also surely help Muslim Background Believers in Bangladesh and beyond.
Anwar Al-Azad
Vice-Principal, Institute for Classical Languages, Dhaka, Bangladesh
This is an extraordinary book. It is not an introduction to Islam, still less a “how to” manual on Christian-Muslim dialogue, or instruction on how Christians might share their faith with Muslims – though the authors could teach us quite a bit about all three of these topics. Rather, this book looks squarely at how Muslims, in all their remarkable diversity, look at a wide variety of things – events or stances or people that are treated both in the Qur’an and in the Bible (e.g. creation, fall, Moses, Elijah, Jesus, the cross), law (shariah), people of God ( ummah ), the nature of holy books (Qur’an, Bible), and more – and ask how Christians should think about all these matters if they carefully study them out of the framework of the Christian Bible. What is characteristic of this study is its zeal to get things right, to be truthful and accurate. Highly recommended.
D. A. Carson
Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, IL, USA
Here is a very fresh and original way of helping Christians to engage with Muslims and Islam. Approaching the Bible with all the disturbing questions raised by the study of the Qur’an and of Islam, Ida Glaser and Hannah Kay come up with refreshingly new ways of understanding familiar biblical themes and texts. Because they have taken the trouble to understand how Muslims interpret the Qur’an, and because they also appreciate rabbinic interpretation of the Old Testament, they are able to recognise where there is genuine common ground between Christian and Islamic beliefs and where there are really significant and crucial differences. They have a remarkable lightness of touch which enables them to explain quite difficult ideas very simply – but without over-simplification. While readers therefore will appreciate the thorough academic study which undergirds this book, they won’t be able to escape the personal challenges which are presented on every page about how Christians should think about Muslims and Islam.
Colin Chapman
Formerly lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, and visiting lecturer at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Beirut, Lebanon
Thinking Biblically about Islam is an outstanding book. Ida Glaser is a uniquely qualified author – academically, spiritually and personally. Drawing on decades of first-hand experience with several Muslim cultures as well as on thorough academic knowledge of both the Bible and the Qur’an, she invites the reader to think seriously about Islam in light of Christian Scriptures. What makes her book special is not only her academic and professional competence but her exceptional humility, honesty and grace in dealing with extremely difficult and sensitive issues. Her book offers no simplistic solutions to complex problems, nor easy answers to tough questions. She takes the reader through an adventure of learning step by step to think anew in a Christ-like way about Islam and Muslims, offering rich resources of prayerful reflection and personal experience. It is the rare combination of academic excellence and spiritual sensitivity that gives her book such a unique quality. In a time of reductionist slogans about Islam, be they motivated by panic and fear, or naiveté and ignorance, a book like Thinking Biblically about Islam is a more than welcome invitation to godly wisdom, loving concern and informed balance, so urgently needed in the contemporary troubled world.
Pavel Hosek
Head of Religious Studies Department
Protestant Theological Faculty, Charles University, Prague
I am thrilled to see this solidly evangelical book which encourages us to think about Islam through the eyes of God and to ‘listen to Him’ (Luke 9:35). This book has deepened my own Christian belief through this process too. Thinking Biblically about Islam is an excellent resource for any Christian to think and understand Islam from different points of view. I specially recommend it for ministers and lay people who work with Muslims or have Muslim background Christians in their congregations.
Mohammad Reza Eghtedarian
Curate for Liverpool Cathedral and Sepas
Thinking Biblically about Islam , is opportune, rigorous and challenging.
It is a very timely contribution to today’s world. As worldwide events prompt a cacophony of competing voices and assertions about Islam and Muslims, more urgently than ever we need to be able to respond biblically – and this book shows us a way to do so. Rather than raucously competing opinions, it is a delight to encounter so many voices brought in conversation in one book. We hear the authors’ voices clearly, as well as Muslim voices: and the reader’s own voice and experience is constantly invited into the discussion through the questions in each part.
With characteristic rigor, the authors read the Bible and Qur’an with detailed attention to the background and structure of the texts. The book exemplifies the reminder that authentic interpretation has to take account of the worlds “behind the text,” “of the text” and “in front of the text.” The event and characters of the transfiguration are a central theme to examine what the Bible and the Qur’an say about God and people.
To read this book is to be challenged to listen better to ourselves, to others, and particularly to the Bible and what it calls us to in living obediently as God’s people. It is accessible to people with little background in Islam. At the same time it will stimulate those with more experience to think anew about biblical texts and their implications for how we live and relate to Muslims in the world today.
I highly recommend it to church leaders, Bible teachers and all Christians engaged with Muslim (and other religious) communities.
Moyra Dale
Adjunct Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Theology
Thinking Biblically about Islam is one of the most exhaustive and thorough works I have seen on the subject of the gospel in church and culture. It reminds all who proclaim Jesus as Lord of the central theme of his teaching. The authors have suggested that thinking biblically strengthens acting biblically. Christians around the world must allow what they love and cherish to guide their actions, and not their hates and/or fears. This book gives a historical and theological understanding of Islam from its modest beginning in the Arabian Peninsula. The spread of Islam to other parts of the world with its eventual encounter with the rich heritage of the Judeo-Christian faith is captured in the book. These understandings break the barrier that has hitherto excluded peaceful co-existence and even more importantly sharing the gospel message in our societies. It calls on true believers in Christ to ‘think biblically about Islam’ and about all of life. An extraordinary work – highly recommended!
Sylvester Dachomo
Registrar and Senior Lecturer in Islam and Global Christianity,
Gindiri Theological Seminary, Jos, Nigeria
Thinking Biblically about Islam is a wonderful book about the amazing grace of God in Muslim-Christian interaction. It is about the heart of God which grieves for all human beings to be saved. In the time of 4 C’s (crisis, chaos, confusion and challenges) like today, Ida Glaser and Hannah Kay have inspirationally demonstrated with academic integrity and theological clarity that God’s heart for human beings was revealed on the mount at the transfiguration as well as at the cross on the mount of Calvary.
This is a triply interwoven story incorporating the God in the Bible and the Qur’an (similarities and differences through the lens of the Bible), stories of Muslims and Christians in history, and stories of both authors on a journey with the presence of God.
This is a must-read book. Glaser gently and yet powerfully invites everyone to know the heart of God and love him, and to love their neighbours – Muslim, Christian, or anyone – by transformation (or transfiguration) of oneself through the cross of Jesus. This is an awakening and unavoidable call of God for his church today.
Matthew Jeong (Keung-Chul)
Ambassador for Interserve
Director of ‘Islam Partnership’, South Korea
Professor of World Religions at Hap-Dong Theological Seminary, South Korea
Christians and Muslims have over the centuries tried to make sense of each other’s beliefs mainly through the lenses of their respective scriptures. In this encounter, the Christian reflections on Islam have been complicated by the virtual absence of direct references to Islamic beliefs in the Bible. In Thinking Biblic