THE SALVATION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK (CHRISTIANS) AND MUSLIMS: A COMPARISON OF SULEYMAN ATES AND WILFRED CANTWELL SMITH
Abstract
Throughout the history the view of religious traditions to each other has been largely negative and exclusionary. However, by the beginning of the modern era, Christian - Muslim communications and relationships make this approaches largely ineffective. In this context, moderate Eastern and Western religios scholars started to devise satisfiying approaches to compromise the two parties. Two of the most important of these scholars are Suleyman Ates and W. Cantwell Smith, who have made comparisons which critizes the traditional perspectives between Christianity and Islam. They have used different methods in their studies, but have reached the same conclusion that the salvation is possible for both of the People of The Book (the Christians) and the Muslims within their sacred books and in their religious traditions. At this stage, their approaches to some extent disturbed both sides rather than trying to persuade. Nevertheless these new approaches have great value since they contribute to the Christian and Muslim groups to understand each other correctly and lead future objective researches.
Keywords
The People of The Book,Christian,Muslim,Torah,Bible,Qoran,Salvation
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