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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> My involvement in Christian-Muslim dialogue is rooted in a Norwegian encounter between a well-established Christian majority and a more recent Islamic minority. The starting point was in the east end of Oslo during my time as a Lutheran minister in a district with a substantial Muslim community. From the mid-1980s I have had the privilege of taking part in living dialogues between Chris-tians and Muslims in different contexts and on different levels first as a parish minister then at the church-related Emmaus Centre for Dialogue and Spiritual-ity. Gradually my involvement in the field led me to academic work with issues pertaining to interreligious studies and Christian-Muslim dialogue in the context of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo. My presentation of Images of Jesus Christ in Islam was first published in 1999. The book relies partly on my own work with the primary sources (clas-sical and modern) but also to a great extent on secondary sources i.e. compil-ations and studies made by others. In relation to the first edition the current edition has been updated by references to more recent research. It goes without saying that the presentation is not exhaustive and some strands of the Islamic tradition and of current research have been given more weight than others. Nevertheless I hope this book will aid others in finding their way into the subject. Its theme may reveal a typical Christian concern for the image of Christ in other religions. (LL)