Christianity and Islam differ fundamentally over how revelation unfolds

Evidence

Islam and Christianity are concerned apparently with much the same themes; fundamentally, they differ about the means that God has used to reveal Himself. They differ about the nature of revelation itself; about the nature of the revelation which they agree was made by Christ; and about the nature of the revelation which only Muslims believe was made through Muhammad. The field of disagreement involves such questions as the character of prophethood, of the Trinity of Persons in the Godhead, and of the Incarnation. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 38 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

What Christians now confronted was a religion that was similar to theirs but that challenged the primacy of their belief system. The God of Christianity is the same God of Abraham worshiped in Islam, but Christianity claims that God’s revelation in Jesus marked the end of revelation and of prophecy. Islam makes a similar claim but argues that Muhammad was the last prophet who received the final and correct Word of God. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 64 (#expands, via linked claim)

Peter attempts to prove that Muhammad is not a prophet, for a prophet by definition foresees the future, whereas Muhammad did not. Here Peter is unaware that the Muslim concept of rasûl is quite different from the Christian notion of propheta: the latter by definition predicts future events, while in Islam a rasûl is a messenger of God, bringing the message that man must submit to God’s will. In showing that Muhammad does not correspond to Peter’s notion of prophethood, he is scoring a point that would carry little weight with a Muslim audience. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 864 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Christian-Muslim disagreement is fundamentally about the means of divine revelation — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 38; Christian and Muslim concepts of prophethood differ fundamentally in meaning — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 864; Islam threatened Christianity because it mounted a rival revelatory claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 64 (+2 more)

Related

• Christian-Muslim controversy necessarily centers on their fixed points of doctrinal disagreement (similarity 0.92)
• Christian-Muslim disagreement is fundamentally about the means of divine revelation (similarity 0.91)
• Christian and Muslim concepts of prophethood differ fundamentally in meaning (similarity 0.88)
• The Christian-Muslim divide turns on different models of revelation (similarity 0.87)
• Islam threatened Christianity because it mounted a rival revelatory claim (similarity 0.87)
• Christian polemicists studied Muslim revelation accounts seriously rather than dismissing them (similarity 0.85)
• Christians could only conceive Islam as derivative of Christian truth (similarity 0.83)
• Muslims had ‘contempt towards the gospel,’ as Smith said in 1835, drawing on his experience in Turkey. Starbuck concluded in 1892, ‘Christendom and Mohammedanism have been misled by no false… (similarity 0.83)
• Each religion saw the other as a corruption of its own truth. (similarity 0.83)
• Christianity constituted Islam as a threat to its core unexamined beliefs (similarity 0.82)
• Both medieval Christianity and Islam defined each other by disagreement, not overlap (similarity 0.81)
• Christian polemic demanded Muhammad’s character be shown incompatible with Revelation (similarity 0.81)
• Both hostile and accurate accounts converged on Muhammad’s revelation as needing explanation (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christians could find Islamic and Christian God concepts nearly identical (similarity 0.81)
• Christians attacked Islam by historicizing Muhammad’s revelation to its place and time. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Christian-Muslim disagreement is fundamentally about the means of divine revelation #corroborates (0.95) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 38
• Islam threatened Christianity because it mounted a rival revelatory claim #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 64
• Christian and Muslim concepts of prophethood differ fundamentally in meaning #expands (0.75) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 864
• Christian polemicists studied Muslim revelation accounts seriously rather than dismissing them #complicates (0.75)