For most Westerners, the Qur'an is a deeply foreign book. Christians who venture within this sacred scripture of Islam enter into a world where echoes of biblical figures and themes resound, yet the Qur'an speaks in accents and forms that defy our expectations. Its content, events, and ideas seem enigmatic.
Mark Robert Anderson's The Qur'an in Context offers a gateway into the original world and worldview of the Qur'an, opening a hermenetucal space for Christians and others to engage its fabric of religious claims. Anderson carefully engages the theology, anthropology, soteriology, spiritually, and portrayal of Jesus throughout the holy book of Islam, providing readers with a reliable guide, forthright in Christian conviction and yet sympathetically open to dialogue.
