Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective by John Renard (review)
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- Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective by John Renard
John Renard, Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), 344 pp.
A contribution to Christian-Muslim dialogue, this book offers an overview of the formation and character of the religious traditions of Christianity and Islam, viewed from a historical, a creedal, an institutional, and an ethical and spiritual perspective. The book can be read as an introduction to Christian and Muslim [End Page 390] thought alike. It concludes by asking why we should engage in dialogue at all, but unfortunately without discussing the tacit assumption that dialogue has a beneficial effect on communal relations. Can it really help us to avert “meltdown” (whatever exactly that may be)? Without empirical evidence nobody knows, but one hopes that it is true.
