We Believe: Muslims and Christians in Conversation about Faith - Paperback

by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen (Author)

This book is meant to provide a sympathetic and critical mutual conversation between Muslims and Christians concerning their deepest and most formative beliefs and doctrines. Written from a Christian perspective, this comparative theological exercise will put Christian doctrines in a dialogue with Muslim ones. What makes this comparative conversation meaningful and significant is that basically all core Christian beliefs from revelation to God, to creation and humanity, to Jesus and S/spirit, to salvation (submission), to community, and to the "end" have a clearly defined corresponding Muslim formulation. Even when at times quite radically different, each of these two sister faiths' "theologies" has a common basis in the Jewish Torah and (to a lesser extent) in the Christian New Testament.

Author Biography

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and Docent of Ecumenics at the University of Helsinki. An author and (co)editor of more than thirty books, including the five-volume Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World (2013-17), his latest is The End of All Things is at Hand: A Christian Eschatology in Conversation with Sciences and Islam (Cascade, 2022). He is an ordained Lutheran minister.