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Faith Meets Faith
A Christian View Of Islam
A Christian View of Islam brings together fifteen key essays by Tom Michel, the noted Jesuit scholar of Islam. This compendium is organized into three major categories:
Interreligious Dialogue: Encountering the "Other"
Christian-Muslim Studies: Comparative Perspectives
A Christian View of Islam
Topics range from studies of various approaches to interreligious dialogue in Part 1 to five comparative studies in Part 2, to Part 3, in which Fr. Michel addresses a number of issues, including Islam as the "Other," Islamic nonviolence, holiness and ethics in Islam, and a Quranic approach to ecology.
Interreligious Dialogue: Encountering the "Other"
Christian-Muslim Studies: Comparative Perspectives
A Christian View of Islam
Topics range from studies of various approaches to interreligious dialogue in Part 1 to five comparative studies in Part 2, to Part 3, in which Fr. Michel addresses a number of issues, including Islam as the "Other," Islamic nonviolence, holiness and ethics in Islam, and a Quranic approach to ecology.
214 pages, Paperback
First published May 31, 2010
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Thomas F. Michel
4 books4 followers(Arabic: توماس ميشال)
Fr. Thomas Michel was born in St. Louis, MO, in 1941, ordained a Catholic priest in 1967, and took vows as a Jesuit in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 1969. After studying Arabic in Egypt and Lebanon, he received a doctorate in Islamic thought from the University of Chicago with a thesis entitled "Ibn Taymiyya's Al-Jawab al-Sahih: A Muslim Theologian's Critique of Christianity." After a year teaching at Columbia University in New York, he taught Islamic studies at Sanata Dharma University in Indonesia as well as Christian theology in Islamic theological institutes.
In 1981-1994, Fr. Michel worked in the Vatican as Head of the Office for relations with Muslims. During this time he spent four years teaching Christian theology in Turkish universities. In 1994-2008, Fr. Michel served in Bangkok as Secretary for Interreligious Affairs for the Catholic bishops of Asia and as Jesuit Secretary for Interreligious Dialogue in Rome. Until recently, he was living in Turkey and has published extensively on modern Muslim thinkers such as Said Nursi and Fethullah Gülen.
He is currently on the staff of Georgetown University as Senior Fellow of the Woodstock Theological Center and Senior Fellow of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. The fall semester of 2012 he held the Wade Chair at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Fr. Thomas Michel was born in St. Louis, MO, in 1941, ordained a Catholic priest in 1967, and took vows as a Jesuit in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 1969. After studying Arabic in Egypt and Lebanon, he received a doctorate in Islamic thought from the University of Chicago with a thesis entitled "Ibn Taymiyya's Al-Jawab al-Sahih: A Muslim Theologian's Critique of Christianity." After a year teaching at Columbia University in New York, he taught Islamic studies at Sanata Dharma University in Indonesia as well as Christian theology in Islamic theological institutes.
In 1981-1994, Fr. Michel worked in the Vatican as Head of the Office for relations with Muslims. During this time he spent four years teaching Christian theology in Turkish universities. In 1994-2008, Fr. Michel served in Bangkok as Secretary for Interreligious Affairs for the Catholic bishops of Asia and as Jesuit Secretary for Interreligious Dialogue in Rome. Until recently, he was living in Turkey and has published extensively on modern Muslim thinkers such as Said Nursi and Fethullah Gülen.
He is currently on the staff of Georgetown University as Senior Fellow of the Woodstock Theological Center and Senior Fellow of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. The fall semester of 2012 he held the Wade Chair at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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July 27, 2012
Father Michel is a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, MO who has spent most of his adult life living in Asian countries that are predominantly Muslim. he has entered into the studhy of Islam and into dialogue with Islamic believers at every level. He is head of the Vatican office For Inter-religious dialogue. This book is a compilation of articles that Fr. Michel has written over the years to help Christians/Catholics understand Islam It is a valuable introduction to Islam. It helps us to understand what Christians have in common with Muslims as well as what our differences are. I highly recommend it.
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