A diverse, packed meeting in Oxford during April saw the launch of a book, Thinking Biblically About Islam.
Arguably, few concerns are more vital, given Islamic State terrorism, the murder of an Ahmadi in Glasgow by a Sunni, intensifying Muslim outreach towards Christians and others, and the election of a Muslim as Mayor of London.
The author, Ida Glaser, asked, with characteristic humility, that if anyone could do better (to answer how to think biblically about Islam), ‘please do!’. Her central point was that Islam was a reversal of the Transfiguration – where the Law, represented by Moses, and the Prophets, by Elijah, find their climactic fulfilment in Jesus, something Islam rejects. She asked whether we could move beyond the trauma of events (like the Lahore bombing) from forgiveness to celebration of survival.
