Okunma Sayısı: 4413
Religion becomes one of the basic elements of human life after the existence of human being in the world. On the one hand, "religion" is a social institution, which has put a certain impact upon other institutions, even for some of them religion has been a source. On the other hand, it is one of the subjects with which the modern men mostly occupy.
God has revealed his messages since Adam via his prophets to the people who has been living in different social structures and conditions forever with "Islam". Islam denotes the achievement of the peace and tranquility through the obedience of the commands of God's religion. The word Islam denotes as a term in the Qur'an as in the verse "the true religion in front of God is Islam" (or Bakara 131, 132) all of the divine knowledge and information sent from God through prophets.
The basic principles of "Islam" who found his last form with Qur'an are the same in all of the religious systems based on revelation. Referring to the name of their prophets and according to the conditions of the time they sent, the religions have different names as Judaism, Christianity; but all of them are originally the religion of "unity". But as happened in Christianity, the change of the social circumstances, the influence of philosophy and the promotion of the social affairs by the clergy led to the corruption of the religion from the original message during the centuries-long process. If the constructed things that are out of the original message of the Christianity would be built away, then it is true that the religion will be in harmony with the last divine religion "Islam".
Instead of the definition of the differences between the Christianity and Islam in terms of their belief system, worshipping forms, prophets, the situation of the clergy, authority etc., and a comparative research on both of these religions, the exposition of the shared points and of the original message of both of the religions in the context of tolerance and dialogue seems to be much more important. If the social affairs in the past would have been left aside, then we can easily say that it exists today a much more convenient intellectual atmosphere than in the past. We are on the side for the constitution of a healthy dialogue environment while living together with Christians in this globalization age, instead of the discussion and approaches that strengthen the "clash of civilizations" thesis.
We think that it is a good deal to accept the idea of dialogue instead of the debates in the process of the EU entrance in the light of the advice of Qur'an "make your struggle with the People of Book fairly, except transgressors" (Ankebut, 46). This new situation could also be interpreted as a new opportunity to make our religion much more known in the EU.
In our time, we should also consider great problems we face with during the application of the Islamic ethics and belief to the social life while studying the impacts of the corruption of the original message of Christianity and its results upon the modern European people theologically and criticizing the result of this development. At this point, Bediüzzaman Said Nursi's advice on a possible alliance with the true Christian pious men and People of Qur'an against the shared enemies which destruct social life such as atheism and materialism becomes more and more significant.
Considering all of the above-mentioned points, we determine our subject for dossier as Christianity in this 93. issue. We plan to analyze this subject in the conceptual framework of "religion, revelation, Christianity, Jesus, Messiah, trinity, church, clergy, reform, people of book, Bible, Qur'an, Israilliyyat, sect, tolerance, dialogue" and seek for answers for the following questions.
What is the main subject of the revelation of Jesus? What kind of divergent points are to be found in Christianity in relation to Islam? How are the Islamic sources dealing with Islam? How does Qur'an see Jesus and Bible? What are the roles of the philosophy and "ego" in the construction of Christianity? Wh