Resurrection Debates: Qur'anic Discourse and Arabic Christian Apology |
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| Authors: | By Mark N Swanson |
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| Institution: | Mark N. Swanson is the Harold S. Vogelaar Professor of Christian-Muslim Studies and Interfaith Relations at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract : 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 21st century. |
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| Keywords: | resurrection qur'anic exegesis Arabic Christian theology redemption narratives 'Ammar al-Basri Christian-Muslim relations |
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