Medieval Christians read Quranic verses as proving scripture’s incorruptibility

Evidence

What was most characteristic of the mediaeval attitude to Islam was the strong dependence on Scripture, the determination to defend Scripture from any attack, and the employment of the Qur’an to defend it. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1401 (#expands, via linked claim)

It was held that the Qur’an itself admitted the truth of the Trinity. Oliver of Paderborn sought ground common to the two religions in terms like ‘breath of God’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 997 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval Christianity girded its defense of Scripture using the Quran against Islam — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1401; Medieval theologians cited the Qur’an as implicit proof of the Trinity — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 997; Bibliander believed a single Quranic passage could restore Christian-Muslim agreement

Related

• Medieval Christianity girded its defense of Scripture using the Quran against Islam (similarity 0.91)
• Medieval theologians cited the Qur’an as implicit proof of the Trinity (similarity 0.90)
• Medieval Christians viewed Qur’anic truths solely as borrowings from Scripture (similarity 0.89)
• Bibliander believed a single Quranic passage could restore Christian-Muslim agreement (similarity 0.88)
• Medieval Christians read the Qur’an as inadvertent testimony to Christian truth (similarity 0.87)
• Medieval Christians saw the Qur’an’s unlikeness to Scripture as its real disproof. (similarity 0.87)
• Medieval polemicists coerced the Qur’an’s own terms into proofs of the Trinity (similarity 0.86)
• Christians cited the Qur’an’s own praise of the Bible as proof of Scripture’s truth. (similarity 0.84)
• Medieval Qur’anic corroboration of the Gospel could be revived as shared ground (similarity 0.84)
• Medieval Christians valued Qur’anic Christ references over Islamic monotheism (similarity 0.84)
• Medieval anti-Islamic polemic read the Qur’an’s own approval of the Bible as self-invalidating (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval arguments against Islam hinged on the stable transmission of texts across nations. (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval Christian thinkers could not conceive of non-Scriptural sources of truth (similarity 0.83)
• Some medieval Christians grasped the Qur’anic Christ accurately (similarity 0.83)
• Mediaeval Christian polemic relied on Scripture to refute Islam (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Medieval Christianity girded its defense of Scripture using the Quran against Islam #expands (0.82) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1401
• Medieval theologians cited the Qur’an as implicit proof of the Trinity #corroborates (0.75) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 997
• Bibliander believed a single Quranic passage could restore Christian-Muslim agreement #expands (0.72)