Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?: Use of Predicates and Homoousios As Foundational to the Answer
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ArticlePublication details: Jun 2020Description: Pages 307-330ISSN: - 0360-8808
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The Question of whether or not christians and Muslims Worship the Same God has received much attention of late, from laity to biblical scholars, theologians, missiologists and philosophers. Answering yes to the question seems from three widespread errors in Christian thought: failure to add Proper predicates to "God"; failure to see as foundational the doctrine of homooousios as it relates t the three persons of the Trinity, especially the Father-Son, Son-Father relation; and doing theology partitively by severing theological categories from their ontological and theological moorning, which is the triune God. Conversely, when predicates and homoousous are given proper place in the undivided Trinity, Two theologically proper questions arise to which the answer is "no"
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