Muslim and Christian scholars' reflections on how God speaks and how faith communities listen

Islam and Christianity similarly rest on a moment in human history where it is believed that God's speech was made uniquely available to humanity for continued encounter. For Muslims, this is the event of the Quran; for Christians, this is the event of Jesus. The question of this defining revelatory event may be considered the most foundational question in theology.

God's Word and the Community of Faith presents an international group of Christian and Muslim scholars in dialogue centered on the question of revelation. Through dialogically close readings of Muslim and Christian texts on the actuality, extent, nature, and modes of revelation, the book's contributors seek a deeper understanding of the similarities, variations, and particularities of the ways language associated with revelation is used in these traditions.

Guided by the recollection that both traditions assert that the world has received a defining manifestation of God's Word, which has claimed authority and to which a community of faith responds, the ten essays and six sets of texts on these responses that make up this book are resources for reflection that will enlighten scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, religious leaders, and motivated nonspecialists.