Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism : a New Translation with Selected Letters

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World Wisdom, Inc, 2008 - Religion - 267 pages
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Contents

On the Margin of Liturgical Improvisations
3
The Enigma of the Epiclesis
13
The Question of Protestantism
23
The Problem of Moral Divergences
57
Alternations in Semitic Monotheism
65
The Idea of The Best in Religions
91
3333
101
23
112
Paradise as Theophany
169
Atomism and Creation
175
On the Divine Will
181
Selections from Letters and Other Previously
189
The Spiritual Virtues according to Saint Francis of Assisi
209
Editors Notes
215
Glossary of Foreign Terms and Phrases
245
Index
257

Dilemmas of Muslim Scholasticism
133
Biographical Notes
267

Common terms and phrases

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