A Muslim and a Christian in DialogueIslam and Christianity by Badru D. Kateregga and David W. Shenk. |
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"There are few books one can give to both a Christian and a Muslim that compare their faiths accurately, sensitively, and clearly. This book is at the top of that very short list. It models dialogue at its best."
--J. Dudley Woodberry, Dean, Fuller School of World Mission
Millions of Muslims and Christians are neighbors and worship the same God. Yet they seldom witness to each other. In this book, a Muslim and a Christian attempt to witness and listen.
The issues they deal with are profound. Kateregga and Shenk open up the basic questions of the human situation and confront similarities and differences in Muslim and Christian responses.
In recent years Muslim-Christian interactions have too often been antagonistic. Here they pioneer another way--that of authentic dialogue between friends.
"Readers will be the clearer for the authors' patient frankness and sincerity both in approach and exposition."
--Bishop Kenneth Cragg, in Foreword I
The authors "write with honesty, tolerance, courtesy, and politeness on the fundamental matters of the two religions."
--Sheikh Abdulla Saleh Farsy, Chief Kadhi of Kenya, in Foreword II
About the Authors
David Shenk has been a lecturer in comparative religion and church history at Kenyatta University and coordinates interfaith commitments at Eastern Mennonite Missions, Salunga, Pennsylvania. Badru Kateregga has been a lecturer in Islamic studies at Makere University in Uganda and Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. Currently he is ambassador of the Republic of Uganda in Saudi Arabia and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Arabia.