Abrahamic religions Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Theological discourse === The figure [[Abraham]] is suggested as a common ground for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the chance of a future reconciliation of these three faiths.<ref name="Krista N. Dalton 2014">Krista N. Dalton (2014) Abrahamic Religions: On Uses and Abuses of History by Aaron W. Hughes, Oxford University Press: New York, 2012, 191 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 993463 5, US$55.00 (hardback), Religion, 44:4, 684-686, DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2013.862421</ref><ref name="Hughes, Aaron W 2012. p. 17">Hughes, Aaron W. Abrahamic religions: On the uses and abuses of history. Oxford University Press, 2012. p. 17</ref> Commonalities may include, creation, revelation, and redemption, although such shared concepts may vary significantly within each Abrahamic religion respectively.<ref name="Hughes, Aaron W 2012. p. 17"/> Proponents of the term argue that all three religions are united through the deity worshipped by Abraham.<ref name="Krista N. Dalton 2014"/> The Catholic scholar of Islam [[Louis Massignon]] stated that the phrase "Abrahamic religion" means that all these religions come from one spiritual source.{{sfn |Massignon |1949 |pp=20–23}} The modern term comes from the plural form of a Quranic reference to ''[[millat Ibrahim|dīn Ibrāhīm]]'', 'religion of Ibrahim', Arabic form of Abraham's name.{{sfn |Stroumsa |2017 |p=7}} According to Christianity, [[Paul the Apostle]], in [[Epistle to the Romans|Romans 4:11–12]], refers to Abraham as "father of all", including those "who have faith, circumcised or uncircumcised". Islam likewise conceived itself as the religion of Abraham.{{sfn |Levenson |2012 |pp=178–179}} The [[Baháʼí Faith|Bahá'í Faith]] states in its scripture that Bahá'ullah descended from Abraham through his wife [[Keturah|Keturah's]] sons.{{sfn |Bremer |2015 |p=19-20}}{{sfn |Able |2011 |p=219}}{{sfn |Hatcher |Martin |1998 |pp=130–31}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page