Prophecy and the Fundamentalist Quest: An Integrative Study of Christian and Muslim Apocalyptic ReligionThis work traces the origins of apocalyptic prophecy in Christianity and Islam through in-depth examinations of several texts found within the Bible, the Quran, and the Hadith. The author contends that Christianity and Islam, often seen as two of the primary fundamentalist and proselytizing world faiths, remain pitted against each other in an ongoing struggle to impose their religious ideology on the rest of the world through either force or persuasion. The religious prophecies discussed in this book are largely focused on end-time or apocalyptic scenarios (such as the Book of Revelation from the Bible's New Testament, the prophesized hour of judgment in the Quran, and the Book of Tribulations in the Hadith). The final two chapters provide an analysis of current world politics, including the Iraq War, within the context of Christian and Islamic prophecy. |
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... Christ's awaited second coming. Islam's prophetic literature has su›ered a similar fate. Di›erent scholars interpret prophecy in whatever manner suits their particular religious outlook. The di›erences arise in the expectation of the ...
... Christ or the Messiah are all common to the Abrahamic faiths. Di›erences in interpretation, however, arise as to how these will play out in terms of their impact on Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Muslims claim that the Quran contains ...
... Christ from his divine status as the only begotten son of God to a mere prophet of God, who directly preceded the prophet Mohammed in a long line of prophets. Quoting profusely from the Quran, Muslims assert Christ was a mere human ...
... Christ, God's dear Son.”3 Thus Jesus becomes God incarnate, “the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last” (Rev. 22:¡3). Muslims also resort to public declarations about their faith being the ultimate truth ...
... Christ, original sin, and the vicarious atonement by his alleged death on the cross, originated with Paul—not Jesus. Paul was a thoroughly Hellenized, Greek-speaking Roman citizen who could not but be influenced by his pagan environment ...
Contents
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Mahdi Islams Archetypal Redeemer and Other Muslim Messiahs | 45 |
Jesus Son of God or Muslim Prophet? | 60 |
Christian Fundamentalism Then and Now | 74 |
Jihad A Theoretical and Historical Framework | 91 |
Osama bin Laden and His Terrorist Agenda | 116 |
Conclusion Beyond Prophecy | 149 |
Appendix 1 The Lesser Signs of the Hour | 167 |
Appendix 2 The Greater Signs of the Hour | 169 |
Explanation of Islamic Terms Used in the Book | 171 |
Chapter Notes | 173 |
Bibliography | 177 |
Index | 179 |
The World Today | 131 |