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Ohlig, Karl-Heinz was born on September 15, 1938 in Koblenz-Kesselheim, Germany. Son of Josef and Gertrud (Hammes) Ohlig.
(This successor volume to The Hidden Origins of Islam (edi...)
This successor volume to The Hidden Origins of Islam (edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-R. Puin) continues the pioneering research begun in the first volume into the earliest development of Islam. Using coins, commemorative building inscriptions, and a rigorous linguistic analysis of the Koran along with Persian and Christian literature from the seventh and eighth centuries--when Islam was in its formative stages--five expert contributors attempt a reconstruction of this critical time period. Despite the scholarly nature of their work, the implications of their discoveries are startling: • Islam originally emerged as a sect of Christianity. • Its central theological tenets were influenced by a pre-Nicean, Syrian Christianity. • Aramaic, the common language throughout the Near East for many centuries and the language of Syrian Christianity, significantly influenced the Arabic script and vocabulary used in the Koran. • Finally, it was not until the end of the eighth and ninth centuries that Islam formed as a separate religion, and the Koran underwent a period of historical development of at least 200 years. Controversial and highly intriguing, this critical historical analysis reveals the beginning of Islam in a completely new light.
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(Despite Muhammad's exalted place in Islam, even today the...)
Despite Muhammad's exalted place in Islam, even today there is still surpisingly little actually known about this shadowy figure and the origins of the Qur'an because of an astounding lack of verifiable biographical material. Furthermore, most of the existing biographical traditions that can be used to substantiate the life of Muhammad date to nearly two centuries after his death, a time when a powerful, expansive, and idealized empire had become synonymous with his name and vision - thus resulting in an exaggerated and often artificial characterization of the prophetic figure coupled with many questionable interpretations of the holy book of Islam. On the basis of datable and localizable artifacts from the seventh and eighth centuries of the Christian era, many of the historical developments, misconceptions, and fallacies of Islam can now be seen in a different light. Excavated coins that predate Islam and the old inscription in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem utilize symbols used in a documented Syrian Arabic theology - a theology with Christian roots. Interpreting traditional contexts of historical evidence and rereading passages of the Qur'an, the researchers in this thought-provoking volume unveil a surprising - and highly unconventional - picture of the very foundations of Islamic religious history.
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(The study shall demonstrate that the dogma of the Trinity...)
The study shall demonstrate that the dogma of the Trinity is a product of historical developments. Jesus believed in Jahwe and called him Father. This monotheism was a central subject of the earliest Christian preachings. The contact between the Christianity and the hellenistic thinking and philosophy led to the trinitarian concepts in the second century: the activities of God were interpreted «ad extra», to the outside (the creation «in the beginning» and the guidance over the history of Israel and of the church) as ontological hypostasis in the concept of the «Word» and the «Holy Ghost». In the third century they lost their temporal character and became eternal «qualities» of God himself. Since the fifth century the western Latin theology produced the doctrine of the three persons in God.
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Ohlig, Karl-Heinz was born on September 15, 1938 in Koblenz-Kesselheim, Germany. Son of Josef and Gertrud (Hammes) Ohlig.
Cura examen, Kath. Theological Fakultät, Trier, Germany, 1963; total harmonic distortion Münster, Germany, 1969.
Chaplain Catholic Church, Neunkirchen, Germany, 1963-1966. Scientist assistant University Saarbrücken, 1966-1970. Professor Catholic theology Pedagog.
Hochschule, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1970-1978. Professor science religion University Saarbrücken, since 1978, dean faculty of philosophy, 1996-1998.
(Despite Muhammad's exalted place in Islam, even today the...)
(The study shall demonstrate that the dogma of the Trinity...)
(This successor volume to The Hidden Origins of Islam (edi...)
(The necessity and limits of Papal primacy)
Married Brigitte Blasius, July 5, 1947. Children: Nadja, Kolja.