TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ricks,Thomas W.
TI  - Early Arabic Christian Contributions to Trinitarian Theology
T2  - Emerging scholars
SN  - 9780800699987 (print)
U1  - 231.044 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Church of the East
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - History
KW  - Trinity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - Christian authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Christian literature, Arabic
KW  - Theology, Doctrinal
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-179) and index
N2  - "The doctrine of the Trinity is the keystone of Christian faith and teaching, yet most of the secondary accounts on the development of this crucial doctrine do not extend beyond Nicaea and pay scant attention to vital cultural traffic. In this volume, Thomas W. Ricks examines the exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity in a set of texts from key Arabic Christian thinkers from the eighth and ninth centuries and demonstrates that fresh thinking of this cornerstone doctrine occurred in the new context of a reigning Islamic culture; in this context, Christian theologians discovered the salience of the Nicene doctrine while engaging a new religious partner."--Page 4 of cover
ER  -