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Incarnation and Trialogue

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Islam in a World of Diverse Faiths

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At the 1980 Conference in Oxford of the Society for the Study of Theology, delegates were told that Abdus-Samad Sharafuddin of King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah sent the Society some copies of a short book he had recently written entitled, About the Myth of God Incarnate — An Impartial Survey of its Main Topics.1 According to Sharaffudin The Myth of God Incarnate is of monumental importance; ‘it shatters agelong darkness like a bolt from the blue; like a rational, godsent lightning it strikes the London horizon to explode an agelong blunder in Christian thought.2

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  1. J. Hick (ed.), The Myth of God Incarnate ( London: SCM Press, 1977, p. 8.

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  2. D. Cohn-Sherbok, ‘Between Christian and Jew’, Theology, March 1980.

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  3. J. Hick, God and the Universe of Faiths ( London: Macmillan, 1975 ), p. 172.

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  4. L. Newbigin, ‘The Basis, Purpose, and Manner of Inter-Faith Dialogue’, Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol. 30, No. 3, 1977, p. 255.

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  1. Dan Cohn-Sherbok
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Kent, UK

    Dan Cohn-Sherbok (Lecturer in Jewish Theology, Visiting Professor of Judaism, Visiting Professor of Interfaith Dialogue) (Lecturer in Jewish Theology, Visiting Professor of Judaism, Visiting Professor of Interfaith Dialogue)

  2. University of Wales, Lampeter, UK

    Dan Cohn-Sherbok (Lecturer in Jewish Theology, Visiting Professor of Judaism, Visiting Professor of Interfaith Dialogue) (Lecturer in Jewish Theology, Visiting Professor of Judaism, Visiting Professor of Interfaith Dialogue)

  3. University of Middlesex, UK

    Dan Cohn-Sherbok (Lecturer in Jewish Theology, Visiting Professor of Judaism, Visiting Professor of Interfaith Dialogue) (Lecturer in Jewish Theology, Visiting Professor of Judaism, Visiting Professor of Interfaith Dialogue)

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Cohn-Sherbok, D. (1997). Incarnation and Trialogue. In: Cohn-Sherbok, D. (eds) Islam in a World of Diverse Faiths. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25324-1_2

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