About the Contributor(s): Anton Wessels is Professor Emeritus of Missiology and Religious Studies at VU University Amsterdam, where he taught for twenty-four years. His most important works in English include "A Kind of Bible": Vincent van Gogh as Evangelist; Europe: Has It Ever Been Really Christian?; and Muslims and the West: Can They Ever Be Integrated?

The artist who originally wanted to become a preacher like his father. This book argues that although when he realised his vocation was to become a painter he broke with institutional Christianity, he continued to be an evangelist in his distinctive way.

Discussing the Bible and the Qur'an in one breath will surprise some Jews, Christians, and Muslims. But Anton Wessels argues that all three traditions must read the Scriptures together and not against each other. As his book title suggests, the three books, in the end, are actually one tale.
Wessels accepts Muhammad as a prophet and takes the Qur'an seriously as Holy Scripture along with the Old and New Testaments -- without giving up his own Christian convictions. Respectfully reading the Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur'an together, he argues, is of crucial importance: our...

Abraham, the father of all believers, plays host to three strangers, one of whom is God, and thus sets an example for others to follow.
Jews, Christians, and Muslims often treat each other as strangers. Their Holy Books are not the cause of their conflicts and enmity but rather show the way to solve them. They tell a common story of the lifelong journey of the human being to the promised city, the promised land, and the promised world where justice and righteousness reign.

""Relying on rich references to poetry, prose, and art, Wessels probes the age-old and sacred practice of hospitality to...