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S03E08: HUM 213 Week 4 (Islam & Timothy): The Patriarch and the Caliph: A Two-Day Debate in Baghdad (AD 781)
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HUM 213 Week 4 (Islam & Timothy): The Patriarch and the Caliph: A Two-Day Debate in Baghdad (AD 781)
Episode Description:It’s about the year 781. A Christian church leader is invited to the court of the caliph in Baghdad, one of the most powerful rulers on earth, for two days of hard questions about the Trinity, the cross, the Gospels, and the prophet Muhammad. The caliph won’t be persuaded, and neither will Timothy. But the conversation, which Timothy wrote down himself, is one of the earliest Christian and Muslim exchanges on record, and it is remarkably respectful. In this…
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