Do Muslims and Christians and Jews Believe in the Same God? | Prof. Francis Beckwith

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🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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This talk was offered on November 30th, 2018 at Brown University. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Speaker Bio:

Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Politics For Christians: Statecraft As Soulcraft (IVP, 2010), and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015), winner of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies. He is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (MJS) as well as Fordham University (PhD, MA, philosophy).

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0:00.0	Do Muslims and Christians believe in the same God?
0:03.8	It's a question that I became involved in about three years ago.
0:11.0	Some of you may have heard of the case of a Wheaton College political science professor
0:16.2	who had posted on her Facebook wall that she had, that she decided during the holidays to wear
0:24.4	a hijab, a head scarf, and she, in order to show solidarity with her Muslim neighbors, and she
0:33.2	also said on her Facebook wall in addition to that, that after all, Muslims and Christians
0:39.5	worship the same God. And that from that event, or from those comments, resulted in her
0:48.7	eventually leaving Wheaton College. Wheaton College is an evangelical school that has a statement
0:53.0	of faith that all faculty
0:54.6	have to abide by. And it was concluded that she, in fact, by saying those things,
1:02.3	had said things inconsistent with that statement of faith. I found myself, strangely,
1:08.7	defending her in several articles that appeared on this online magazine called
1:13.7	the Catholic thing. And that eventually led to me being invited to participate in a book on
1:19.7	this question, do Muslims and Christians and Jews worship the same God? So this evening,
1:27.4	I'm going to talk about, when I try to answer the question, do Muslims
1:31.7	and Christians believe in the same God?
1:33.5	I'm also going to include Judaism in the question as well for obvious historical reasons.
1:39.8	The argument that I'm going to make this evening is not a defense of a kind of
1:45.2	inter-religious ecumenism. It's actually a philosophical argument, and it's an argument
1:52.7	that I think is consistent with the thought of the namesake of this institute, St. Thomas Aquinas. So let me begin with a story. You should all,
2:03.8	by the way, have copy of notes. It's a kind of an outline of the lecture. So let me begin with a
2:12.6	story. As a kid, I collected comic books. My favorite character was Superman. Some of you may have heard of
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