A Great Father of the Church in Dialog with Islam: Saint John of Damascus
A Great Father of the Church in Dialog with Islam: Saint John of Damascus

Summary/Abstract: This study presents the Christian-Islamic religious dialogue in its first stage, inwhich the main representative of the Christians was St. John of Damascus, the lastHoly Father of the Church belonging to this patristic period. Since the beginning ofits manifestation, Islam was mistaken for a Christian sect, for a heresy, the hundredth, as St. John of Damascus considered. In two of his works, the Syrian Fatherimagines a dialogue with a representative of the new religion, being debated severalissues that differed Christianity from Islam. St. John gives us the first ChristianIslamic polemic themes, themes that remained valid till today.

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