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Article · Comparative ReligionHistorical study · Apologetics · Comparative theology · Biblical discernment

Revelation or Reception?

Sources behind Qur’anic narratives

…monly called the Gospel of Thomas, nor should it be labelled Gnostic merely because it is apocryphal. In its clay-bird episode, the child Jesus plays beside flowing water on the sabbath. He forms twelve sparrows from clay. When challenged about what He is doing, He commands or ge…

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Article · Comparative ReligionApologetics · Comparative theology · Biblical exposition · Theological reflection

The Sum of These Things

Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence

…ady transformed by Christian proclamation. It inherited biblical names, Christian titles, apocryphal stories and centuries of theological controversy. It retained elements of that world while reorganising them under a new claim to revelation. Islam cannot explain why the earliest…

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