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

CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANTWORSHIP The Protestant Reformation was an assault not only on the overwhelming authori- ty of the papacy, ...

After that time, there is no evidence of sacrifice; all worship takes place in synagogues. b. From that day to this, there has b ...

CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE, MOSQUE The Jerusalem temple, while it stood, and the Christian church are functional- ly parallel structures. ...

LECTURE THIRTEEN d. The noon prayer on Friday should be prayed in community in a mosque. There is also a sermon on Fridays. e. W ...

How did the idea of private, unstructured prayers begin? Can Muslims, Jews, Protestants, and Catholics sit down to pray togethe ...

Lecture 14 - Reaching for God Introduction: The believers will behold God in the Afterlife—or not: it’s called Hell—but some amo ...

ASCETICISM INSTITUTIONALIZED Asceticism, the voluntary self-denial of legitimate pleasures for religious ends, though it had its ...

LECTURE FOURTEEN a. Asceticism is the adoption of a lifestyle of self-denial and discipline for religious ends. The end is often ...

PRACTICALSUFISM The Sufi’s transport was, like the mystical experience of the Christian and the Jew, a transient state, a brief ...

The End Time a. All three religions agree on the Final Judgement. b. This is supposed to take place in the Valley of Kedron, be ...

How can any monotheist “attain” God since God is so totally other? Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, Purgatorio, ...

COURSE MATERIALS COURSE MATERIALS Course Texts: Bible, King James Version Peters, F.E. Judaism,Christianity and Islam: From Cove ...

Other Books of Interest (cont’d): Peters, F.E. Muhammad and the Origins of Islam. New York: State University of New York, 1994. ...