How can comparing Bible and Qur’an help with our evangelism?
The July 2023 edition of en ran my article "How can we think deeply about Islam?", a precis of a book that I am working on called Thinking Theologically About Islam.
It is my response of amazement that a religion with as little theological substance as Islam has can enthral the minds and hearts of so many millions of people. But to understand why I am convinced that a much more deliberately theological approach to Islam is needed, you will need to know something of my religious background.
How can we think deeply about Islam?
In September 2018, en featured a review of Ida Glaser and Hannah Kay’s: Thinking Biblically About Islam.
The book shows how the God of the Bible engages with peoples of other religions. But the equally Biblical emphasis that God confronts the gods of other religions is largely absent. Provoked by en’s headline ‘Can you do better?’ I perhaps rashly decided to respond with a book that would simply state the Bible’s and the Qur’an’s teachings about God, in six basic theological categories.
