What Was the Christian Arab Word for G*d?

The name of God in the Quran is Aḷḷāh, that much is clear. We also know that the Quran explicitly equates its God with the God the Christians and Jews follow. Today Arabic Christian and Jews alike will indeed call their God that. But where does this name come from? 🧵 pic.twitter.com/KolqWmXVPz

— Marijn "i before j" van Putten (@PhDniX) October 19, 2021

Human Fraternity Not as Easy as It Sounds

Magister: Brothers All. But With the Muslims, for Francis, All Is More Complicated

Infection with Liberalism?

Or playing the liberal game in order to gain more freedom for their churches in Muslim-dominated countries?

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The Story of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

My latest column, coauthored with @Macalester student Zain Ijaz #heymachttps://t.co/Y5pePMAcKp

— Andrew A Latham (@aalatham) October 25, 2020

Taking Possession of the Building

Hagia Sophia to be Turned into a Center of Knowledge About Islamhttps://t.co/qX4s5ExLt1 pic.twitter.com/fV0iSRKyQF

— Mystagogy (@mystagogy1) October 7, 2020

"Abrahamic Religions"

An Orthodox traditionalist prooftexts from Scripture; but he isn't wrong, regardless of what his liberal correligionists and progressive Latins might think.

What did Christ say about the idea that Christians and others (such as Muslims and Jews) worship the same god?
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What did Christ say about the idea that Christians worship the same god as the religions (Jews, Muslims, etc.)?
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What did Christ say:

Do Christians worship the same god as Jews and Muslims?

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Douglas Farrow on Bishop Schneider's and Archbishop Viganò's Objections Regarding Vatican II

Dethroning Christ? The error at the root of the Viganò controversy (Part I)

Part 2

Farrow seems to admit this much:

Now, surely there is nothing wrong with a document promulgated in a political context being on its way to a political rather than an evangelical end, so long as that end is understood to be proximate rather than ultimate. There’s the rub, however. For the Abu Dhabi Declaration seems to be evangelically deficient in a way no political aim can justify. Its call to “come together in the vast space of spiritual, human and shared social values,” and to do so in such as way as to avoid “unproductive discussions,” might reasonably be taken to rule out the very thing Paul was doing on Mars Hill!

But Farrow cannot get beyond the parameters set by Latin ecclesiology, taken by Latins to be dogma:

When we keep this in mind, we can see more easily that to give the answer we ought to give, the answer we must give if we do not intend to be schismatic – the answer that Vatican II was indeed an authentic ecumenical council, engaged in the work of God and of the magisterium of the Church under God – is not to commit ourselves to the untenable notion that its fathers were uniformly faithful or that its documents, despite the flaws of their authors, were themselves essentially flawless.

As a Latin he must accept the claim by Rome that Vatican II is an ecumenical council. Because he must accept that, he must uphold the hermeneutic of continuity, much as Benedict XVI. Part 2 is better in so far as he responds to certain misconceptions (held by some Latin integralists and Latin traditionalists) regarding nature of the Kingship of Christ.

The Third Encyclical

Pope Francis to Sign a New Encyclical on Human Fraternity on Oct. 3 https://t.co/7x28IkUyFW @cnalive

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 5, 2020

@Pontifex's new encyclical needs to heed Benedict XVI: "A brotherhood which embraces everyone in equal manner cannot expect to be taken seriously by anyone." My latest @Church_Militant story. @JZmirak @jihadwatchRS #humanfraternity #CatholicTwitter https://t.co/m8kBQMlPCE

— Dr Jules Gomes (@DrJulesGomes) September 5, 2020

The new encyclical to be released next month, on the universal human family, will invite comparison to the never-promulgated 1939 document Humani Generis Unitas. https://t.co/bOlFaGPft0

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) September 5, 2020

John LaFarge, S.J. and The Unity of the Human Race

HAGIA SOPHIA: SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS by Phil Dorroll

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— Orthodoxy in Dialogue (@OrthoDialogue) July 6, 2020

Progressives within Greek Orthodoxy?

Bishop Schneider on Latin Interfaith Dialogue

Bishop Schneider: Catholics and Muslims share no common faith in God, no common adoration https://t.co/DanJv22DgY

— LifeSite Catholic (@LSNCatholic) June 20, 2020

Apparently you are unfamiliar with Muhammad's status in Islam as the "excellent example" (Qur'an 33:21) for human behavior in all ages. Unfortunately, hundreds of millions of Muslims are quite familiar with this. https://t.co/O2ap12eFOX

— Robert Spencer روبرت سبنسر रॉबर्ट स्पेंसर 🇺🇸 (@jihadwatchRS) June 21, 2020

L’Islam mis à nu par les siens: Anthologie d’auteurs arabophones post 2001, edited by Maurice Saliba

Riposte Laïque

CWR: Islam Up Close by William Kilpatrick
A new book containing essays by 46 former Muslims joins the ranks of recent works revealing Islam from the inside.

Maurice Saliba
Maurice Saliba : « Qu’ont fait les responsables musulmans pour voir émerger un jour un « islam des lumières ? » [Interview]

Critique de « l’islam mis à nu par les siens » dans « Nous sommes partout »

Eastern Christian Books: Islamic Prophethood Understood Thomistically?

Eastern Christian Books: Islamic Prophethood Understood Thomistically?

UND Press: Muhammad Reconsidered: A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy by Anna Bonta Moreland

How can one ask whether someone is a prophet without first asking whether his message is true? How else is a prophet to be judged?

From the publisher's description:

Anna Bonta Moreland calls for a retrieval of Thomistic thought on prophecy to view Muhammad within a Christian theology of revelation, without either appropriating the prophet as an unwitting Christian or reducing both Christianity and Islam to a common denominator. This historical recovery leads to a more sophisticated understanding of Islam, one that honors the integrity of the Catholic tradition and, through that integrity, argues for the possibility in principle of Muhammad as a religious prophet.

How does she do this without embracing some form of religious relativism, with indifference as a possible consequence?

Moreland sets the stage for this inquiry through an intertextual reading of the key Vatican II documents on Islam and on Christian revelation. She then uses Aquinas's treatment of prophecy to address the case of whether Muhammad is a prophet in Christian terms. The book examines the work of several Christian theologians, including W. Montgomery Watt, Hans Küng, Kenneth Cragg, David Kerr, and Jacques Jomier, O.P., and then draws upon the practice of analogical reasoning in the theology of religious pluralism to show that a term in one religion—in this case “prophecy”—can have purchase in another religious tradition. Muhammad Reconsidered not only is a constructive contribution to Catholic theology but also has enormous potential to help scholars reframe and comprehend Christian-Muslim relations.

Using Vatican II document on Islam (Nostra Aetate) when any positive claims about Islam are by their very nature not infallible as they do not have anything to do with Divine Revelation is typical of a Latin mindset, whether the purpose is to uphold the Latin tradition or to deviate from it. What sort of "Christian-Muslim relations" are possible if Christians do not recognize the message of Muhammad as being an authentic divine revelation?

And what could a "theology of religious pluralism" possibly mean, except some claims about how non-Christian traditions can nonetheless contain some elements of truth in them? Christians are not followers of a "Book" or a people of a "Book" or of a "Tradition." Christians are those who have been incorporated into Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

"Abrahamic" Religions

New English Review: The Abrahamic Fallacy by Mark Durie

Some Latin Soteriology?

CWR: Pope Francis, the uniqueness of Christ, and the will of the Father by Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM., Cap.

Given the pluralism of world religions, many contemporary academics and pundits argue that Christianity can no longer claim itself to be the one true religion. Not only do those who profess other religious beliefs question [...]

Edward Pentin Collects Some Responses

On the "It's not theology, it's diplomacy, or something" document. By what authority does the bishop of Rome have to make such a statement, with a representative of Islam?

Confusion in the patriarchate of Rome:

NCReg: Does the New Catholic-Muslim Declaration Deviate From Catholic Teaching? by Edward Pentin
The document’s statement that ‘diversity of religions’ is ‘willed by God’ has generated controversy.

John Lamont on the Document on Human Fraternity

Rorate Caeli: Guest Article: "Francis and the Joint Declaration on Human Fraternity: A Public Repudiation of the Catholic Faith"

Did They Interview Myanmar Buddhists?

Eastern Christian Books: Muslims Making Martyrs of Christians

Eastern Christian Books: Muslims Making Martyrs of Christians

Eastern Christian Books: Mohammad as Heretic, Islam as Heresy: Some Latin Views

Eastern Christian Books: Mohammad as Heretic, Islam as Heresy: Some Latin Views

But Islam Will Never Embrace Historical Criticism

What If Muhammad Didn’t Write the Qur’an? by Will Jones