Thursday, August 25, 2005
Christianity and Islam - The Same God? One Roving Theologian’s Take
Hugh Hewitt today on his website asks whether Islam and Christianity do indeed worship the same God. He asked for theologians’ takes on this. So, here we go....
I want to add up front, that I am a great admirer or Islam and of Islamic culture, so this should in no way should be taken as in any way disrespectful of Islam. I base my statements solely on both Christian and Islamic theology and practicec.
The talk show Hugh Hewitt (http://www.hughhewitt.com) asks today on his website, in the light of Pope Benedict’s recent statement to Muslims, “The question of whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God is a tricky one upon which Christians disagree,” is the understatement of the decade. I am no theologian. But I am interested in what the theologians have to say on this crucial issue.”
Well, as a theologian (the PhD is almost done) and a more than amateur student of Islam, I wonder whether the question can ever be answered fully. As a believer that there is no God but Yahweh, who exists as perpetual Trinity and is revealed in the person of Jesus Christ, the incarnation of the 2nd person, there is a fundamental belief that any prayer being offered to any God can only go to the one God. But that is the cheat way out of the argument.
