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Roger Arnaldez, Three Messengers for One God, trans. from the French original by Gerald W. Schlabach, with Mary Louise Gude and David B. Burrell (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994), pp. viii + 219.
The fruit of a lifetime of scholarship in Islamic studies, this is Arnaldez' s philosophical meditation on the common roots he sees at the heart of Western religious tradition. At one level, then, this is a sensitive religionist's attempt to make sense of the widespread claim that Judaism, Christianity and Islam worship the same God, and claim a religious life grounded in the same spiritual vision. Published originally as Trois Messagers Pour Seul Dieu (1983), it attempts to go beyond the specificities of the three religions, since clearly they differ widely in just about all areas of comparison, to argue for...