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Christopher Catherwood takes an in-depth comparative look at the three major biblical faiths: Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

A respected authority in religious history, Catherwood objectively and accessibly explains how these three great faiths developed over time and how they have changed today. Respectfully he examines each religion's claim to truth, revealing Christianity's reasonable and meaningful relationship with the one true undivided God.

About the Author
Educated as a historian at Balliol College Oxford and at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, England, Christopher Catherwood has taught extensively on both sides of the Atlantic.

He has taught at the Institute of Continuing Education at Cambridge University, in England for many years, and the University of Richmond in the USA. In 2002 he also served on Tony Blair's Prime Minister's Strategy Unit.

He is the son of Sir Frederick Catherwood (former Vice-President of the European Parliament), and maternal grandson of the preacher Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

He is also the author of Christians, Muslims, and Islamic Rage and Why the Nations Rage: Killing in the Name of God.

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: David C. Cook; New edition edition (March 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781443741
ISBN-13: 978-0781443746
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent evaluation of Islam, May 11, 2007

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First of all, a health warning: THIS IS A CHRISTIAN BOOK. I say this because I was caught by surprise. I have read some of Professor Catherwood's excellent histories ("Winston's Folly", "A brief history of the Middle East") and I expected more of the same here, because I had no idea that Prof. Catherwood is a devout Christian. From the word go, he makes no bones about it - Christianity is the right religion and Jesus's Gospel statement that "I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no man comes to the Father, except through me" (Jn.14:6) is, er, Gospel. Moreover, he ends the book with a chapter explaining why Christianity is the true religion (he also owns up to being a fan of "intelligent design"). I personally find it admirable that an author will so firmly nail his colours to the mast and lay bare his agenda right from the word go, rather than try to sneak in his point of view by subterfuge. However, those who are anti-Christian and/or Richard Dawkins fans and/or who bridle at such absolutism in an era of relativitism should perhaps think of their blood pressure and avoid this book.

Those non-Christians who can overcome any anti-Christian bias sufficiently to read this book are treated to a very interesting dissertation. Most interesting with respect to current events is the analysis of Islam. This is where Prof. Catherwood's Christianity pays dividends - as the current perceived problems with Islam and Muslims are essentially tied up with the religion, who better to analyse such things than a person who understands and accepts the concepts and language of religion? While secular commentators are reduced largely to spectators, those in the know can go much deeper into it, into the very theological heart as it were.

For me, the analysis of Islam was an eye-opener. I had no idea that it has no concept of sin, and therefore no idea of redemption, both absolutely fundamental to both Judaism and Christianity. Another eye-opener was "jihad", which, for the vast majority of Moslems means not holy war but the struggle to be a better person (it's the nearest that Islam has to the Christian doctrine of sanctification, the progress one makes in the Christian way after salvation). And herein lies part of the rationale of the suicide bomber. If you have no redemption (such as Christ's once-for-all-time sacrifice for sin), you are reduced to trying to get into Paradise by having sufficient good deeds to outweigh the bad. And, as a Muslim who falls in combat against the infidel is translated directly to Paradise, why not make sure? (Prof. Catherwood reminds us that this is a minority, if regrettably far too common, view in the Islamic world - Islam condemns suicide and "combat" meant falling in battle).

The most telling truth of all is that Islam is fundamentally designed to be the majority religion of a country. Mohammed was Abraham, Moses and Alexander the Great all rolled into one. Mohammed started out as a conqueror, Jesus never militarily conquered a thing. It is a religion of power, and, unlike Judaism and Christianity, has no concept of Moslems being a minority in a country where the majority are not Moslems and where therefore Islamic sharia law cannot run. Judaism and even more so Christianity have long since cut themselves adrift from national ties and can cope and even thrive in countries where they are minorities, even under severe persecution. Islam is not adapted to do this, and its adherents in western countries struggle with western values. Moreover, Islam is used to being the winner - it won the Crusades decisively and it threatened the West for far longer than the West threatened it, so it finds itself in an unfamiliar (and uncomfortable) position. Islam has had a Reformation of sorts, but, from a western point of view, it went the wrong way and gave us the puritanical Wahabis of Saudi Arabia, and ultimately al-Quaeda and Osama bin Laden.

Can Islam coexist with western mores and values? Prof. Catherwood believes it can, but he sees it as a faith in crisis , unsure of its next move. He sees this crisis, which has contributed to the rise in Islamic terrorism, as an opportunity to spread what he sees as THE Truth among Muslims resident in the West.

In summary, if, as a non-Christian or atheist, you can bravely grit your teeth through the overtly Christian parts of this book, you will learn a lot and you will understand Islam much better than you did previously - and in this day and age that can't be bad.

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5.0 out of 5 stars God is not Divided!, May 4, 2007

By	Mark Cole (West Chester, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Christianity, Islam, and Judaism cannot all be true because each of them is saying something profoundly different about the one indivisible God. Christopher Catherwood argues that Christianity is the one true faith, the faith that makes sense, and the path to salvation and eternal life. He does this by explaining the history of all three religions. Impressive!

This high order task is done writing a short, easy to understand and read book. People of different faiths do not understand each other very well. Catherwood is in favor of interreligious peace and reconciliation and "lauds all efforts to produce it". One of the reasons I pre-ordered this book from Amazon is that I was hoping for an Evangelical Manifesto of how the endless war in Iraq does not serve God's purposes - but Catherwood is more of a historian than a politician - and the brief history of these religions make it a must-read for Christians who want to know the times we live in.

Both Islam and Christianity have its roots in Judaism, honoring the Hebrew Scriptures, but with claims of being universal religions - applying to all people. The names of the religions tell us a lot about them - Judaism is about the Jews - an ethnic group and nation, Christianity is about Jesus Christ - a man and the one true God, Islam is about a theological idea - that people should submit to God.

Why is Christianity truer or better than the other two? Catherwood talks about how we do not know very much about the birth of Abraham or the birth of Mohammed (Mohammed is barely even mentioned in the Koran) because that is not central to their faiths. We do know a lot about the birth of Christ. The other faiths tell us some revelations about God - but that is different than God coming to earth as a Man. In America - Christmas is mainly a secular feast to celebrate materialism and the giving of gifts, but to those with faith it is the celebration of God coming to earth as a Baby, and demonstrating how to love everyone, and finally how to die, so that we can now have a intimate friendship with Him father to son, brother to brother, with constant communication between each other. Islam is like Christianity without the Christ. It provides a God who demands obedience, but there is no Savior or peace.

The appendix should not be missed. It is about how modern science points us to this faith that makes sense. For instance, he shows how genetic research points us all to a common ancestor - a common Eve - that lived a long time ago. At the beginning of the book he dedicates this book to his small group at church. I could not help thinking how lucky those people were to be friends with Catherwood - this is a very informally written, friendly, clever type of book. I have not given justice to Christopher Catherwood's cleverness in this short review!

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