Among all the positive moral properties spelled out in the Qur'an, belief is at the center of the text. ... The messages from the text are conveyed with various literary structures and devices. ... Also in the context of being a religious text, it is beneficial to get the point across through repetition. Brown summarizes that the seeming disorganization of Quranic literary expression is in fact a literary device capable of delivering profound effects as if the intensity of the prophetic message were shattering the vehicle of human language in which it was being communicated. ... In concl...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The gospel message, with its good news of what God has actually done for us in Christ; add something that basically alters the structure of faith itself. ... The early Christian, in controversy with the Jews, appealed to the Hebrew Scripture as proof-texts, but if fact they were reading these Scriptures in a new way, in light of the Christ-event, and hence were not giving deductive or syllogistic arguments. ... The more extraordinary and unexpected the message, the more guarantees we normally demand from the witness. ... A witness to a revelation is not credible without being at least in s...

• Word Count: 2454
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate