Jesus of Arabia understanding the teachings of Christ through the culture of the Arabian Gulf
By: Thompson, Andrew
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BookPublisher: Dubai : Motivate Publishing, c2014.Description: xxxv, 194 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781860634079Subject(s): Jesus Christ | Arabian Culture | Middle East culture | Christianity in Middle EastDDC classification: 279 TH JE Online resources: Location Map
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Of all the questions that lie at the heart of interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims, perhaps the most essential one is: What did Jesus actually say? Has the message of Jesus, as originally understood by a Middle Eastern audience, changes as a result of having been filtered through a Western culture? This book seeks to highlight those connections between the cultural world of Jesus with the Islamic cultural world of the Arabian Gulf.
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| 276.22 CH RI Christianity and monasticism in Middle Egypt : | 277.30830883718 VE RI Vernacular Christian rhetoric and civil discourse : | 279 TH CH Christianity in the UAE : | 279 TH JE Jesus of Arabia | 290 CR YO You were made for so much more : | 291 KE WO World religions / | 291.17 AS FO Formations of the secular : |
Of all the questions that lie at the heart of interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims, perhaps the most essential one is: What did Jesus actually say? Has the message of Jesus, as originally understood by a Middle Eastern audience, changes as a result of having been filtered through a Western culture? This book seeks to highlight those connections between the cultural world of Jesus with the Islamic cultural world of the Arabian Gulf.