Interesting thing I stumbled on the other day:
while doing reading on the 7th century, I was looking over one of the earliest English works of canon law, the Penitentials of Theodore of Tarsus (north Syrian immigrant Archbishop of Canterbury). While looking for something else, I noticed a rule on abortion:
it was only a sin in c690 AD after the fortieth day after conception ...
and Theodore says that this is the rule for both the Roman Church and the
Eastern churches ... and forbidden after that
Odd thing to me was that that's the _islamic_ rule as well. Up to 40 days,
perfectly legal, no harm no foul ...
anyway, thought that was interesting both in suggesting how, c 690, christianity
and islam were considerably less different _and_ that the present day papal
teaching is _not_ that of the Catholic Church in years past ...
2 comments:
Actually, Islamic jurisprudence borrows a lot from Judaism and Christianity. If you follow contemporary Muslim thinkers and scholar (Ahmad Subhi Mansour and Jamal Al Banna of Egypt, Mohammad Shahroor and Adnan Al-Refaei from Syria) you will discover that all of the oral traditions (including Hadith) that were written in the 3rd century are apocryphal and a lot of times in contradiction to the message of the Quran. There is a PhD dissertation from Morocco highlighting the influence of Christianity in interpreting the Quran.
You are confusing Islam (represented by the Qur'an only) with Sunni, Shiite and Sufi jurisprudence (represented by the books of their founders).
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