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Influences of Syriac Christianity on Islam?
It was fascinating to learn about the influence of Syriac Christianity, via Anthony McRoys book review
of Diarmaid MacCullochs A History of Christianity. Syriac Christianity is characterised by two strands,Miaphysite (or Monophysite), that is, believing Christ had but one nature, and Nestorian, believing Christ
had two natures, one fully human and the other fully [...]
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It was fascinating to learn about the influence of Syriac Christianity, via Anthony McRoys book review
of Diarmaid MacCullochsA History of Christianity. Syriac Christianity is characterised by two strands,
Miaphysite (or Monophysite), that is, believing Christ had but one nature, and Nestorian, believing Christ
had two natures, one fully human and the other fully divine. Islam is an unintended consequence of the
Christological controversies that led to the Chalcedonian Miaphysite-Nestorian split.
When the northern Arab Ghassanid kingdom became Christian it adopted the Miaphysite tradition of the
Syrian Orthodox Church. Similarly, Ethiopian Christianity, though it looked to Coptic Egypt rather thanSyria, was also Miaphysite. Yet another Miaphysite community existed in Najran near Yemen. But a year
after their overlord converted to Judaism he massacred many in this community. Ethiopian Christians
came to their rescue and this led to the establishment of a flourishing Arab Christian kingdom.
Catastrophe struck in the 570s, the same decade in which Muhammad was born. This was the time when
the great Marib dam collapsed in Yemen, bringing to an end the ancient Sabaean civilisation of South
Arabia centered on the city of Marib and completely dependent on this dam. Christianity lost
its credibility when this event led to the ruination of the prosperity of the region an event mentioned in
the Quran 34:16:
They ignored (the evidence) and We sent to them a flood, arising from a broken dam.
Nothing was left in their gardens but bitter fruits, some tamarisk and a few lotus trees.
MacCulloch speculates that the Quranic repudiation of Jesus divinity may be due to a misunderstanding
of the Monophysite position (that Christ had one divine-human nature) as meaning that Jesus only had a
divine nature. McRoy also contends that the Quranic name for Jesus Isa doubtless derives from the
Nestorian Syriac Isho, betraying Nestorian influence on Islam.
Source:Evangelicals Now (June 2010) 29
Posted July 10, 2010
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