THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IN ARABIC by Sidney H. Griffith ( 9780860788898 )

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THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IN ARABIC
MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD

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Sidney H. Griffith

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Pub. date:

4 November, 2002

Series:

Variorum Collected Studies

Pages:

338

Language:

English, Arabic

Description:

From 750 to 850 AD Christians, living under Islamic rule, began to compose theological works in Syriac and Arabic to counter the religious challenges of Islam. Griffith explores the works of writers who apologised for Christianity at that time.

Synopsis:

The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith's previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam. In particular, the author shows how Christian apologists who wrote in Arabic adopted in defense of Christian doctrines the modes of discourse (kalam) then employed by Muslim controversialists (mutakallimun) to advance the claims of Islam. The writers whose works are studied here developed a truly Christian 'ilm al-kalam, that is to say a science of defending Christianity in an Arabic idiom borrowed largely from Muslims.

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