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Kenneth Cragg
This set re-issues two of Kenneth Cragg's lesser-known but no less important books, which illustrate his deep knowledge of the Qur'an and his lifelong interest in Islamic and Christian theology.
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The Qur'an is the prime possession of Muslims: how then, are they reading and understanding their sacred Book today? This volume, originally published in 1985 examines eight writers from India…
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Through a study of the lives of 13 people, including missionaries, historians and writers, this book considers how the issues of authority, meaning, vocabulary and contemporary realism have been undertaken…
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Offers a means of study that reaches for a deeper knowledge of the Qur'an, engendering a new understanding of its holy teachings and opening a means for a fruitful discourse.
The crucial sequence of the Scriptures - alike in the Bible and the Qur'an - is through a cosmos created, for a creaturehood entrusted, by virtue of revelatory direction, mediated…
Semitism has overtaken itself with the barbarity of a dividing Wall - a scar across a land allegedly ‘beloved above all’, by both God and People. This title tells a…
Purposeful suicide in contemporary Islam and the deep pathos in its frequency for religious ends is the main impulse to the topic of Faith at Suicide. The Islamic phenomenon needs…
‘Because of’ is plainly there in broken faith, angry blasphemy, base injustice, and ‘the sins of the world’. Perhaps the other is known for real in the drama where all…
Centuries before the existence of the Islamic faith, there were Arabs who could be described as Christian. And there has been a Christian Arabism, an Arab Christianity, since Muhammad’s day…
An examination of divine omnipotence , based on ten themes central to religion: language; law; love; truth; tribe; selfhood; nature; power; time; and worship. A final chapter argues that Christianity…
A courageous attempt to compare and contrast Islamic ideals of prophecy, as found in Muhammad, with the prophetic traditions of the Hebrew Bible. It challenges Muslims, Jews and Christians to…
Explores the taxing question of whether Christ-Learning should be an ongoing process by using examples of the critical and personal learning undertaken by minds exercised with scholarship, ecclesiology, poetry, the…
The aim of this work is to search the liability for pronouns as religions use them, and to discuss the doctrines and the institutions that enshrine we and us and…
Originally published in 1973, this volume consists of a sequence of essays in religious thinking, responsive to the impact of Quranic style and emphasis. .
A guide to the Qur'an for non-Muslims. The text is arranged into themes: God and his praise; man in creation; prophethood in human guidance prior to Muhammad; Muhammad in his…
The title of this work is taken from Surah 73.5 of the Qur'an, where Muhammad understands that he is to undergo the onset of a weighty word . It attempts…
Kenneth Cragg reveals that the call to prayer contains summons for Christians and Muslims alike in an uplifting book, bringing new perspective to interfaith relations.
The separate events of Islamic scripture are not difficult to chronicle, but what kind of event does the whole of the Qur'an represent? How did geographical setting, culture and traditions…
This study written by Bishop Kenneth Cragg, one of the world’s leading Islamicists, is an introduction to the New Testament that takes into account the issues of central interest to…
Bishop Kenneth Cragg’s anthology brings together writings from both these faiths, underlining their spiritual compatibility.
The prophet Muhammad is thought to be one of the most influential figures in human history, but how should he be acknowledged by Christian culture? Bishop Kenneth Cragg attempts to…
A profound and personal reflection on the theological and practical inter-relation of religious faiths and their communities. The author has wide experience in Christian dialogue within Judaism and contemporary Islam.
Bishop Kenneth Cragg
This book is based on the 1967 Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion and discusses the Biblical concept of human dominion and the Qur'anic doctrine of Adam as caliph. It explores…
Kenneth B. Cragg
On the Sunday following September 11, 2001, Reverend Kenneth Cragg worshipped as usual in his sanctuary, located directly across the street from a Muslim mosque. In a miraculous act of…
Nicholas J Wood
How are people of faith to be faithful to their various traditions in today’s diverse society? How may we live together as neighbors and yet remain true to our differing…
Reverend Dr John Watson
Christianity and Islam are capable of dialogue. Neither faith has a single religious establishment or narrow belief system, both are rainbows of faith and practice. This book offers evidence of…
Illuminates the difficulty that ensues through the Scripture’s contradictory teachings on Islam’s manifestation in the world - teachings that have brought about a crisis for modern Muslims living in both…
J. Andrew Kirk
Samuel Huntington’s thesis, which argues that there appear to be aspects of Islam that could be on a collision course with the politics and values of Western societies, has provoked…
Muhammad 'Abduh
Originally published in 1966, this was the first of Muhammad ‘Abduh’s works to be translated into English. Risalat al Tauhid represents the most popular of his discussion of Islamic thought…
Originally published in 1966, this was the first of Muhammad 'Abduh's works to be translated into English. Risalat al Tauhid represents the most popular of his discussion of Islamic thought…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
