One God, Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Whence comes the right (or is it the necessity?) to interpret the words of the All-Knowing God? de Hamel, Christopher. The Book: ...

Lecture 9 - Tradition and Law Introduction: From the beginning, revelation was thought to provide not merely story but pre- scri ...

c. There is much more besides in Islamic religious society which, like the Jewish one, lacks an authority capable of mandating r ...

Canon Law and the Magisterium a. Jesus announced that he had come not to abolish the Torah but to fulfill it, and the Gospels p ...

What is the complex relationship of Scripture and Tradition in the shaping of Judaism, Christianity and Islam? Hirsch, Ammiel an ...

Lecture 10 - Defining the Community Introduction: The believers in the One True God have organized themselves into faith com- mu ...

THENEEDOF BAPTISM, ANDOFTHECHURCH Baptism was central to membership in the Christian community, in the con- trast, for instance, ...

THE INQUISITION The inquisitiois a judicial procedure bor- rowed from Roman Law by the Christian Church for the prosecution of h ...

e .Christianity places a high value on orthodoxy or “correct belief”—the creed is a common measure of community adherence among ...

Why is maintaining the community so important to the monotheists? What were the charges of the fatwaagainst Salman Rushdie? How ...

Lecture 11 - Governing the Community Introduction: Leadership within the faith communities has passed from one group to another, ...

THE RISE OF THE PAPACY The Jesus movement, what was soon called “Christianity,” had spread from Jerusalem through large metropol ...

B. Charismatic Leadership The Christian Episcopate a. Jesus appointed an inner circle of Twelve, the “Apostles,” who seem to ha ...

LECTURE ELEVEN Caliphs and Imams a. Muhammad had made no provision for his successor, so after his death in 632 CE, the Meccan ...

FORGREATERUNDERSTANDING Everyone agrees that God will not desert His community; the issue always is, who are His chosen agents f ...

Lecture 12 - Defending the Community Introduction: The faith community had sometimes to deal with another, civil society, or, in ...

b. Pope Urban II at Clermont in 1095 first called for Crusade. Its formal title was peregrinatio in armis, “armed pilgrimage”—an ...

Jihad a. Although the Arabic term jihad means “struggling,” or more specifically, “Struggling in the path of God,” it is normal ...

What are the elements that have contributed to the apparent militancy of Islam? How is Judaism or Christianity different? Or ar ...

Lecture 13 - Worshipping God Introduction: God requires public and formal worship—that’s what liturgy means—and despite some dir ...