Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Name: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Author: F.E. Peters
ISBN: 0691073562

by F.E. Peters (1990)

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F.E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related--and competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these "children of Abraham." Through these extensive passages, and the author's connective commentary, the three traditions are shown with their similarities sometimes startlingly underlined and their well-known differences now more profoundly exposed. What emerges from this ambitious work is a panorama of belief, practice, and sensibility that will broaden our understanding of our religious and political roots in a past that is, by these communities' definition, still the present. Throughout the work we hear an amazing variety of voices, some familiar, some not, all of them central to the primary and secondary canons of their own tradition: alongside the Scriptural voice of God are the words of theologians, priests, visionaries, lawyers, rulers and the ruled.--From publisher description.

Setting / LocationGlobal

Story EraModern Era

Protagonist / CoreJudaism, Christianity, and Islam Lead Character

Themes & Moods

Fiction & Literature Islam Judaism Christianity Bible Christendom Modern Era

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