Christianity and Islam: Beyond History to The Will of The One and Only God  

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Swee-Chun, Joseph Ng

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: East Asian Pastoral Review vol. 40 no. 4 (2003), page 383-406.
Topik: Islam; Christianity; History to The Will of The One and Only God

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE37.2 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Will the conflicts of the future occur along the cultural fault lines separating civilizations, as predicted by the hypothesis of Samuel P. Huntington in “The Clash of Civilisations?”1 Though it Though it is not within the scope of this essay to evaluate — affirm or negate— the validity of the hypothesis, nonetheless it provides a persuasive and reasonable apprehension of the real and possibly greater clash be¬tween fanatic Islamic nations or Muslims and unfortunately Western-identified-as-Christian nations. Since the Western powers usually helped the missionaries from their countries, most Muslims came to identify practically all the activities of western powers with Christianity. In the Arab world to this day missionary activity is practically identified with colonialism.2 To some extent Western/European, including the specifically Christian perception and projection can be blamed for a distorted image of contemporary Islam. They emphasize the decadent and fabulously rich oil sheikh of the 1970s; the fanatic ayatollah, spattered with the blood of martyrs, of the 1980— stereotypes which are no more representative of mundane reality than was the blood-thirsty and licentious pagan of medieval legend.3 After the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, all but four or five Muslim countries were engulfed by “Christian” imperial powers — Britain, France, Spain, Holland and Russia. Even

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