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Those interested in Christian-Muslim dialogue may wish to examine a recent work Muhammad and the ChrmIst1Za,n by Kenneth Cragg, an Anglican Bishop who knows Arabic and is the author of a number of books on Islam.
The author focuses primarily on Islamic understandings of God and the Prophet rather than on traditional fields of Muslim/Christian controversy such as the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, the crucifixion, and so on.
On the positive side, although the book is primarily addressed to the Christian reader, the Muslim who reads Cragg’s reflections will at certain points?
This trend is not absent in the present work, for example when Cragg suggests that the relationship of Muhammad to God implied in saying blessings on the Prophet is in some ways like “sonship.
Where Cragg has pointed out fundamental differences between the faiths Muslims cannot respond by saying‘—“Oh yes—-but Islam really is like Christianity.