ABSTRACT
The religions of Islam and Christianity are pre-eminently religions of belief. Each has struggled to define its own orthodoxy against variant heterodoxies and heresies from within, and each has a history of self-proclamation as universal truth over against any other claimant from without. So it is little wonder that these two religions have a history of mutual competition, to put it mildly. Charles Kimball asks:
In this chapter I shall attempt to sketch an answer and point to the possibilities of going beyond the impasses of the past.
