Wasn't it Nestorianism, with its distinction between the divine and human natures of Jesus which is customarily seen as having an influence on Islam? The figure who passed on to Muhammad the last 'real' New Testament, according to Islamic mythology, a text which pre-dated the supposed sabotaging of the word of Jesus by self-serving factions in Byzantine Christianity, has been represented as a Nestorian.
Someone who shared a self-confessed muddled agnosticism with me was Dennis Potter; his play Son of Man keeps its options open as to Jesus's divinity, but suggests that his belief in his message, his effect on others and especially his sacrifice on the cross were transformative. (This was more apparent in the RSC production in 1995 than in the 1969 BBC original, I recall.)
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Date: 2008-10-14 11:24 pm (UTC)Someone who shared a self-confessed muddled agnosticism with me was Dennis Potter; his play Son of Man keeps its options open as to Jesus's divinity, but suggests that his belief in his message, his effect on others and especially his sacrifice on the cross were transformative. (This was more apparent in the RSC production in 1995 than in the 1969 BBC original, I recall.)