The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.(Briefly Noted)(Book Review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, April, 2005 by Oakes, Edward T.
THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM. By F. E. PETERS, with a foreword by JOHN L. ESPOSITO. Princeton University Press. 312 pp. $24.95.
ARISTOTLE'S CHILDREN; HOW CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, AND JEWS REDISCOVERED ANCIENT WISDOM AND ILLUMINATED THE MIDDLE ACES. By RICHARD E. RUBENSTEIN. Harcourt. 384 pp. $15 paper.
The usual way of expressing the volatile mix that is Western Civilization is to speak of the tension between Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome (representing, respectively, Hellenic reason, monotheistic faith, and imperial drive coupled with legal uniformity). But that leaves out Islam, which is clearly intruding on the West in ever more obvious ways. Perhaps the better way to think of this volatility would be not in geographical terms of...
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