The monotheists : Jews, Christians, and Muslims in conflict and competition. Volume II, The words and will of God /

The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and ap...

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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Peters, F. E. (Francis E.)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2003.
Online adgang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sf64
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • The scriptures: bible, New Testament, and Quran
  • Understanding the word of God
  • Scripture and tradition
  • God's law and its observance
  • God's commandments and human morality
  • Divine worship
  • Thinking about God
  • From desert saints to Muslim sufis
  • Leaping from the dark into the light: mysticism
  • The last things.