Anthropological foundations of approximation to God in Islam and Christianity
Document Type : Scientific-research
Abstract
Happiness and perfection in the Abrahamic religions is nearness to God Almighty. This approach can be examined from different aspects, such as place of the approximation in religion, its influence in worldly and afterword life and so on. But an important issue, is foundations and infrastructures of this approximation. In Islam and Christianity, nearness to God is based on a series of anthropological and theological foundations. Some of these foundations are common in Islam and Christianity, like man has covenant with God, man is on the way of becoming, man seeking absolute perfection, man is the vicegerent of God and Christ. Although, given the fundamental differences between theology and anthropology of Islam and Christianity, based on the writings of Paul's, some of the foundations of nearness to God is different in these two traditions. Islamic specific foundations are carrying a divine trust by mankind, clean nature of man, his ability to attain perfection. Christian specific foundations are
infected nature of human, his inability to save and proximity, but by the grace of God and atonement of Christ.