Re: Two kinds of theistic science?
Murphy (gmurphy@imperium.net)
Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:33:09 -0500David Bowman wrote:
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> George Murphy wrote:
>
> > Well, yeah. Orthodox Jews & Christians both await the coming of
> >the Messiah. Christians know who it will be. ....
>
> As I recall shiite muslims are also awaiting the coming of the Mahdi (a
> messiah-like figure the doctrine of which seems to have been imported into
> Islam from a mutation of the Christian doctrine of the 2nd Advent of Christ).
Remember also that in Islam Jesus is believed to be the Messiah
& that he will be the judge at the last Judgment (though I'm not sure
whether or not the latter is in the Qu'ran). Orthodox Muslims have in
some ways a higher christology than some (N.B.!) liberal Christians -
though this is mitigated by belief that Jesus didn't die on the cross.
George Murphy