GODA
Title: GODA
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 4633 | Pages: 17 (approximately 235 words/page)
GODA
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 4633 | Pages: 17 (approximately 235 words/page)
Christianity and Islam share much common ground. Both trace
their roots to Abraham. Both believe in prophecy, God's messengers
(apostles), revelation, scripture, the resurrection of dead, and
the centrality of religious community. This last element is
especially important. Both Christianity and Islam have a
communitarian dimension: what the church is to Christianity the
"umma" is to Islam.
Despite these significant similarities, however, these two
world religions have a number of significant differences as well.
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behind the highly developed liturgical worship of the
Eastern Christian than they do understanding what they consider to
by the overly informal, unregulated worship of the Evangelical
Christian. This, to me, is an interesting topic in Christian-
Muslim relations that needs to be explored more fully in
scholarship and inter-faith dialogue: Christians and Muslims need
to examine more fully -- and more objectively -- the similarities
and differences between their experiences of prayer and worship.