← All writings Series · 6 parts

Contending

  1. 01 The Perfect Book Problem The street claim that the Quran is preserved to the letter while the Bible is corrupted, tested against Islam's own canon and manuscripts. The copies are excellent; the absolute claim is what fails.
  2. 02 The Uncreated Word Islam fought a fifteen-year inquisition over whether the Quran is created, and a Christian monk posed the decisive dilemma a century earlier. What the createdness controversy opens up for a conversation about John 1.
  3. 03 Answering Islam's Questions The three questions every Christian eventually hears from a Muslim friend, answered from the sources: the corrupted-Bible claim, the three-gods claim, and the challenge that Jesus never claimed to be God.
  4. 04 The Crucifixion Problem The Quran denies the crucifixion in a single sentence written six centuries after the event. What happens when that sentence meets the method historians use to establish any ancient fact.
  5. 05 Abrogation and the Two Books Islam's doctrine of abrogation from inside its own sources: what Quran 2:106 establishes, how far classical scholars said the sword verse reached, and what happened to the one reformer who tried to reverse the order.
  6. 06 What Happens to Reformers Every serious attempt to reform Islam from inside, and its documented fate: a hanging, an assassination, a constitutional excommunication, a collapse. Why the survivors all live in the West.