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Triune Relationality
A key area of disagreement between Christians and Muslims is the nature of God: Is God a Trinity or absolutely one? Applying insights from early Arabic Christian theologians and philosophers to current conversations, Sherene Nicholas Khouri offers both historical and constructive responses to Islamic objections to the doctrine of the Trinity.
Surviving the Cross
For Christians, the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ are quintessential subjects as Jesus died on the cross and rose on the third day. Unfortunately, even after reading about the life of Jesus in the Bible—and all that he has done and promised to do in the coming age—many people choose to dispute the traditional story of Jesus Christ. These skeptics have embraced other heterodox theories concerning the crucifixion (such as the Swoon Theory), which warrant a response. Their interpretation, whether it be based on genuine unfamiliarity or a lack of belief in who Jesus is, cries out for clarification and correction. This book seeks to help guide those towards the truth of Scripture—that Jesus physically died on the cross and miraculously arose just three days afterward. Therefore, by investigating the circumstances surrounding the events of the crucifixion, detailing what is medically plausible, and observing what is historically recorded, this book sheds greater light on the truths that Scripture asserts on the resurrection of Christ.
The Greatest Conceived Being
The Islamic golden age under the Abbasids opened up the opportunity for Christian thinkers to present several apologies for the doctrine of the Trinity in Islamic context. This study examines the status of the Arabic church in the eighth to tenth centuries, especially the trinitarian apologies of John of Damascus, Theodore Abū Qurrah, and Yaḥyā Ibn ‘Adi against Islamic misunderstanding of the Trinity and its probable cause, in order to come up with trinitarian apologetics that answer Islamic objections and that will be useful for the present day. While both Christians and Muslims agree that human beings will never be able to fully perceive God in their own minds, they both agree that God should be the greatest conceived being in order for people to believe in him. Basing the argument on this common ground, this study shall show that the greatest conceived being should be relational—intra-relational within himself and inter-relational with his creation—and the Trinity is the only model that shows the divine being eternally relational.
