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Book Review: Wounded Visions: Unity, Justice, and Peace in the World Church after 1968

Vincent Cornell is more charitable than Neusner, but concludes that there are unbridgeable gaps between the Muslim faith and its Abrahamic competitors. The Jews’ refusal to acknowledge Jesus’ messiahship (to which Islam assents) and Christians’ refusal to abandon their views of Jesus as Son of God make it impossible for Muslims to accept either religion. His conclusion, however, is that “the short answer to this question from the Islamic perspective is yes with respect to Jews and maybe or it depends with respect to Christians” (123). Bruce Chilton in his representation of Christianity goes off on such wide-ranging tangents that he never gets to the subject under discussion. Even his concluding remarks are ambiguous: “Each of the Abrahamic religions, while asserting that God is unique, also insists that its identification of God is uniquely true. That is why their God is one and not the same, and why believers need to acquire a taste for the fruits of difference” (83). This reviewer believes that ultimately the contributors are seeking an answer to the wrong question. Much more pertinent than “Do we worship the same God?” is the question, “Is our worship acceptable to the One God Who is?” Christians would answer the latter question thusly: “No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also” (1 John 2:23). This is certainly the only acceptable answer from a biblical perspective.