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Early Arabic Christian contributions to Trinitarian theology / Thomas W. Ricks.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Emerging scholarsPublication details: Minneapolis Fortless Press 2013Description: v, 184 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780800699987 (print)
  • 080069998X (print)
Other title:
  • Subtitle on cover: Development of the doctrine of the Trinity in an Islamic milieu
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • BT 109 RIC 23
LOC classification:
  • BT109 RIC .R53 2013
Contents:
Fī tat̲līt̲ Āllah āl-wāḥid -- Theodore Abū Qurrah -- Ḥabīb ibn H̲idmah Abū Rā'iṭah -- 'Ammār al-Baṣrī.
Summary: "The doctrine of the Trinity is the keystone of Christian faith and teaching, yet most of the secondary accounts on the development of this crucial doctrine do not extend beyond Nicaea and pay scant attention to vital cultural traffic. In this volume, Thomas W. Ricks examines the exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity in a set of texts from key Arabic Christian thinkers from the eighth and ninth centuries and demonstrates that fresh thinking of this cornerstone doctrine occurred in the new context of a reigning Islamic culture; in this context, Christian theologians discovered the salience of the Nicene doctrine while engaging a new religious partner."--Page 4 of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and index.

Fī tat̲līt̲ Āllah āl-wāḥid -- Theodore Abū Qurrah -- Ḥabīb ibn H̲idmah Abū Rā'iṭah -- 'Ammār al-Baṣrī.

"The doctrine of the Trinity is the keystone of Christian faith and teaching, yet most of the secondary accounts on the development of this crucial doctrine do not extend beyond Nicaea and pay scant attention to vital cultural traffic. In this volume, Thomas W. Ricks examines the exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity in a set of texts from key Arabic Christian thinkers from the eighth and ninth centuries and demonstrates that fresh thinking of this cornerstone doctrine occurred in the new context of a reigning Islamic culture; in this context, Christian theologians discovered the salience of the Nicene doctrine while engaging a new religious partner."--Page 4 of cover.

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