The Abrahamic Point of Contact

In Our Father Abraham , R. R. Reno suggests that the common claim that Jews, Christians, and Muslims are all united in being “Abrahamic religions” isn’t very useful, since Abraham means different things to each of them. The figure of Abraham provides “a point of contact,” but not necessarily more than this.

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