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SfK Newsletter Vol. 2017-02 February 8, 2017 View this email in your browser                                 The following essay was originally published in the special edition of Occasional Bulletin by EMS (Evangelical Missiological Society) in 2016 by Dr. C.S. Caleb Kim.   “A missional response to an ever provoking question”   Ever since the rise of Islam in the seventh century, Christians have been challenged by the question:  Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?  Muslim polemicists also use this same question when they dispute with Christians. In fact, as a monotheistic religion borrowing a lot from Judeo-Christian traditions, Islam has many similarities with Christianity in its theological discourses regarding God and Jesus. The Qur’an declares, “Our God [in Islam] and your God [in Judaism and Christianity] is one...

By C.S. Caleb Kim, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Inter-religious Studies, Africa International University. Dr. Kim is Adviser to SfK Ministries on Islam Strategy. This essay was originally published in the special edition of Occasional Bulletin by EMS (Evangelical Missiological Society) in 2016. It is republished with the author's permission. Ever since the rise of Islam in the seventh century, Christians have been challenged by the question: Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Muslim polemicists also use this same question when they dispute with Christians. In fact, as a monotheistic religion borrowing a lot from Judeo-Christian traditions, Islam has many similarities with Christianity in its theological discourses regarding God and Jesus. The Qur’an declares, “Our God [in Islam] and your God [in Judaism and Christianity] is one” (Sura 29:46). Ontologically speaking, both Christianity and Islam seem to refer to the same God since neither of them allows ...