Consensus Volume 35 Article 3 Issue 1 Christianity and Islam in Dialogue 5-25-2014 Conquest and Violence: The hrC istian critique of Muhammad David D. Grafton The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia,
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[email protected]. Grafton: Conquest and Violence Conquest and Violence: The Christian critique of Muhammad David D. Grafton Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia n the previous article (Apples to Apples or Apples to Dates? The Muslim Critique of Christian Scriptures) I demonstrated that the way in which Christians and the orthodox I Islamic tradition talk about and understand the purpose and role of their own scriptures is fundamentally different from one another. We have different kinds of bodies of literature or traditions that do different things and they serve different theological purposes. In discussing the general comparison of Muslim and Christian scriptures we utilized a particularly common Muslim critique of the “corruption” of Christian scriptures. In this article we would like to address a similar topic; that is, the traditional comparison of Persons, namely Jesus and Muhammad.