The Dialogue of Islam and the World Faiths

Abstract

Once upon a time, a believer thought: “Every religious controversy is due to someone’s — someone else’s — ignorance.” No longer, sadly. Given our knowledge of rival religions today, we recognise that the differences here are genuine, irreducible, and indeed violently expressed. Each religion, especially Islam and Christianity, has rigidly maintained that its tradition alone has a de jure claim to unique truth and validity. Both the New Testament and the Qur’an claim to provide their respective adherents with the definitive and comprehensive truth about man, nature, and divinity.