Posted on 07/16/2008 4:23:33 AM PDT by Coffee200am
The Archbishop of Cantebury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has described key elements of the Christian Trinity doctrine as being offensive to Muslims.
The Trinity is the Christian doctrine stating God exists as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and conflicts with Islamic teaching that there is one all-powerful God.
In a letter to Islamic scholars, Dr. Williams also spoke critically of the violent past of both Christianity and Islam, and of Christianity's abandonment of its peaceful origins.
Keen to promote closer dialogue and understanding between the two faiths, Dr. Williams letter covers difficult issues, including religious freedom and religiously inspired violence, and according to The Telegraph, it is in response to a document written last year by Muslim scholars from 43 countries. That letter was described by the archbishop as polite and well meaning.
Discussing differences between the religions, Dr. Williams acknowledges that Christian belief in the Trinity is "difficult, sometimes offensive, to Muslims".
Speaking about the history of the two religions, Dr Williams said they had been too often confused with Empire and control.
"There is no religious tradition whose history is exempt from such temptation and such failure. What we need as a vision for our dialogue is to break the current cycles of violence, to show the world that faith and faith alone can truly ground a commitment to peace which definitively abandons the tempting but lethal cycle of retaliation in which we simply imitate each other's violence," he said.
The 17-page letter, called A Common Word for the Common Good, is in response to a letter from Muslim leaders written last September.
That letter, A Common Word Between Us and You, was signed by 138 Muslim scholars to declare the common ground between the two religions. (ANI)
Thanks for the post. Eye opening and very frightening.
While comparing and contrasting Islam and Christianity, he finds that the Christians have abandoned peace?!?
Appears to be complete.
Video beheadings annoy me.
I think honest Jews, Christians and Muslims can agree the Karan is a haphazard effort to take the Jewish and Christian traditions and make them Islamic traditions with the intent of conversion. Further, MUSLIMS NEED TO GET OVER IT ALREADY.
Abraham was not a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a monotheist, a Muslim (Âl ‘Imran 3:66)
CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG: Abraham was a jew. Jesus was a Christian. Mohammad was a tyrant and propagandist that beheaded people and collected goats.
“When Muhammad linked the name of Allah to the religious histories of Judaism and Christianity, this was a way to claim them for Islam. In the light of later events, the claim that Islam was the original religion, and that all preceding prophets were Muslims, can be regarded as an attempt to appropriate the histories of other religions for Islam. The effect is to rob Christianity and Judaism of their own histories.”
“Consider that many Biblical sites, such as the tombs of the Hebrew Patriarchs and the Temple Mount, are claimed by Islam as Muslim sites, not Jewish or Christian ones. After all, the Quran tells us that Abraham was a Muslim. Under Islamic rule all Jews and Christians were banned from such sites.”
Rowan the Fuzzy is offensive to me.
In truth even that is an error because Islam was only around from the 600’s and not before. Even Abraham cannot even be called a Muslim because his faith in God and not in a religion.
It made Islam look more like a lie because it was around from the 600’s.
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