Islamic contradictory theology \dots\ is there any such thing? (Q2239385)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7419648
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7419648 |
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Islamic contradictory theology \dots\ is there any such thing? (English)
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3 November 2021
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In the paper under review, the author argues, using some elementary semi-formal notation from symbolic logic, that a contradictory theology cannot exist in Islam. The paper is a reaction to a set of works by Jc Beall in which the latter proposes a ``solution'' to the question of ``contradictory Christology''. From the point of view of logic (of any logic), the contradictions in the Christian dogmas (Christ being at the same time human and divine, the indivisible Trinity, etc.) and even in the practical teaching (that the first will be the last and the last will be the first, etc.) is a banal evidence and there is no need to make a scientific theory of it. The author in the paper under review intends though to be scientific, appealing to theories such as analytic logic (and strangely enough, referring to a forthcoming paper of himself for the explanation of what is ``analytic logic''), talking about isomorphisms between structures (giving the definition of an isomorphism in a footnote, as a homomorphism having such and such property, while, strangely enough, the notion of homomorphism is defined in a later footnote), etc. The paper fails to be of any interest from the point of view of logic, as does the paper by Beall to which it refers. The author's statements about a transcendental and ineffable God in Islam, which are after all his only support of his claim that there is no contradiction in Islamic theology, apply equally to Christian theology, and do not show anything interesting. From the point of the reviewer, both works, of Beall and of Ahsan deserve no attention from logicians.
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