Friday, March 01, 2002

BOOKS: Here's this Christian Science Monitor review of The Muslim Jesus, a collection of the various ways Jesus has appeared in Muslim literature. Like this:

In Muslim writings, Jesus has a life of his own. His miraculous birth is emphasized, but there's no mention of the Passion. Here Jesus companions with ascetics rather than with sinners, as in the Gospels. The Muslim Jesus has hot words for scholars who advance themselves by working with the government. In general, this Muslim Jesus is for community over against the leadership. Of all the prophets, we learn, Jesus appealed to Muslims as an example of purity of heart, "constantly on guard against the temptation of haste and heedlessness."

Via the Christianity Today blog.

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