In a world rife with religious tensions at home and abroad, a new and thoughtful book proclaims some good news: There is much that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam share. For starters, all three Abrahamic traditions venerate Jesus. This is not breaking news, of course, but author Mustafa Akyol makes the most of this commonality.
The author, who is a Turkish journalist, began his theological odyssey early in this century, on the streets of his home city of Istanbul, when a Christian missionary greeted him and handed him a Bible. That night he began reading it and was struck by how much of it was consistent with his own Islamic faith.
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