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Resurrection Debates: Qur’anic Discourse and Arabic Christian Apology
Author(s) -
Swanson Mark N.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6385.2009.00468.x
Subject(s) - exegesis , islam , conviction , philosophy , arabic , ninth , christian theology , jewish christian , religious studies , theology , christian tradition , literature , judaism , art , law , political science , linguistics , physics , acoustics
: That God will raise the dead is a conviction of Christians and Muslims alike. The Qur’an proclaims and defends the reality of the general resurrection; Christian theologians who lived in the Islamic world attempted to make an apology for the career of Jesus by narrating it as a divine demonstration of that reality. This article provides an exegesis of the resurrection‐discourse of one surah of the Qur’an; summarizes a Christian‐Muslim discussion about the death and resurrection of Jesus from the ninth century; and offers suggestions for how Christians and Muslims might learn from one another in the 21 st century.