Review: The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque (original) (raw)
This is a review of Sidney Griffith's The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque written for the Jenkins Center at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. This is a semi-academic review intended for those who are new the area of Christian-Muslim relations.
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