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The article of Şinasi Gündüz questions the ways for the understanding of Jesus' teachings. According to his contribution, Islam emphasizes Jesus as a ring of the prophet chain sent to humanity through the course of history of mankind, as a prophet and messenger. Any attempts to deify him are denied by Islam very strongly. The most basic message of the prophet Jesus was to believe in the ultimate unity of God and to submit himself to the sovereignty of God. The author touches on the significance of his messages because of the resemblance of the social circumstances in the time of Jesus to the contemporary "social world which is in serious crisis". The political power which was dependent on Rome and the Jewish elites has used the law, and religious beliefs according to their own interests. The author explains how the extensions of this perception could be seen also in our day.
Metin Karabaşoğlu asks in his article whether "Jesus was a laic, or not?" and discusses the speech of "Ceasar's right to Ceasar, God's right to God" in the framework of secularization, and materialization. The author draws our attention to the fact that Islam defines Christians as People of Book and contains an address towards them loaded with compassion and fairness. He firstly remarks the approach of the Qur'an against Christians and then reveals that Christianity already holds many truths even though it has been distorted. Then, the author criticizes those who behaved in a 'non-Islamic' way without understanding the real stance of Qur'an against Christianity and prevented the opening of many Christians' hearts to Islam.
Lütfullah Cebeci's text clarifies the view of Islam on Torah and Bible. Cebeci emphasizes that in order to determine the view of Islam in any issue, firstly, the main book and constitution of Islam, i.e., Qur'an, should be referred in order to find out the relevant parts of Qur'an in that subject. Qur'an announces itself as the last ring of the holy books, and its prophet is also the last prophet of the long chain of prophets in different ways. He cites the relevant verses from the Qur'an which are both sublimating these two books, on the one hand; and bringing up clearly that they have been distorted, on the other hand.
A. Hakim Murad tries to put forward as a Muslim his understanding of trinity as a Muslim. According to him, the trinity perception by Muslim is different and distinctive as the Christian theologians. The author deteriorates the reasons of these different perceptions.
Şadi Eren's article displays the relationship between Muslims and People of Book in its historical process and also proposes how it should be. According to the author, 21st century would be a century in which Christianity will be surrendered to Islam. Because, the Islamic army which came in front of Wien with their arms reached today through the swords of proofs and persuasion almost to all of the places of Europe and of the world in which Christians are living.
Mustafa Alıcı attracts our attention in his article into the gradually increasing need of the inter-religious dialogue and approach. According to the author, this situation is a very vital issue concerning the pious people in our modern age. He proposes to offer a general definition of dialogue, and the comprehensive look of Islam towards the members of other religions. In this respect, the author talks about a practical aspect to the Muslim-Christian dialogue in the light of the 64th verse of the sura Al-i Imran.
Ramazan Altıntaş examines in his article Protestantism, which he defines as "libertarian theology" in the conceptual framework of Protestantisation, Protestantism, and secularism. As a result of the impact of this religious movement, the material and spiritual power have been separated from each other. The Protestantism emerged firstly in the Anglo-Saxon countries, where "job ethics" has been transformed into the development ideology. Altıntaş states that the Protestant ethics has also played the leading role in the legitimacy of capitalism. Protesta