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Jun 20, 2023 · In the surviving works attributed to Saint John of Damascus, there are two that deal with what he felt was the monotheistic heresy of Islam; they are On Heresies and Dispute Between a Saracen and a Christian.
His critique of Islam, or “the heresy of the Ishmaelites,” is especially relevant for our times. There is also the superstition of the Ishmaelites which to this day prevails and keeps people in error, being a forerunner of the Antichrist.
- Muslims as Saracens, Ishmaelites, and Agarenes
- Summary of John of Damascus' Views on Islam
- Islam as Yet Another Heresy
- The Knowledge and Truthfulness of John of Damascus
John was a standard-setter in systematic Christian-Muslim polemics, so much so that he could be regarded as its father. Essentially, every subsequent Christian polemicist, as well as apologist, owed a debt of gratitude to him, one way or another. He was also the first who officially named Muslims "Saracens," "Ishmaelites," and "Agarenes," except th...
John's views on Islam and Muslims were seminal. At the same time, they were surprisingly disrespectful and somewhat aggressive. They served as a precursor to what could be dubbed radical and antagonistic anti-Islamic polemics, which paved the way for the emergence of the embryonic forms of what is called at present Islamophobia. John wrote that Isl...
John of Damascus' was when heresies were raging and were afflicting the core of Christian doctrines and sacraments. John stood at the heart of the developments. He dedicated his life to diagnosing and annihilating them, to such an extent that the Second Council of Nicaea - precisely 38 years after John's death, in 787 - was convened to resolve the ...
John of Damascus was a prominent religious leader and authority. He was a paragon and also a trend-setter of Christian polemics. However, it is startling how thoughtless, insensitive and imprudent he was in his thought on Islam and Muslims. His views verged on intellectual mediocrity and even out-and-out ignorance. His predilection for bias, prejud...
When Syria was conquered by the Muslim Arabs in the 630s, the court at Damascus retained its large complement of Christian civil servants, John's grandfather among them. [17] [19] John's father, Sarjun (Sergius), went on to serve the Umayyad caliphs. [17]
The obvious importance of John of Damascus (d. ca.749) in the history of Muslim-Christian relations derives from the fact that he was the first major Christian intellectual to confront Islam.
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
- 2019
St. John of Damascus was an eighth-century Church Father who lived for much of his life in a city controlled by Muslims. He wrote two brief yet remarkable treatises against Islam, Heresy of the Ishmaelites and Disputation between a Christian and a Saracen.
In this book, Peter Schadler outlines the intellectual background of the Christian Near East that led John, a Christian serving in the court of the caliph in Damascus, to categorize Islam as a heresy.
