Christian Ethics and Islamic Ethics: A Critical Comparative Study in the Ghanaian Context.
- 1. Department of Religion and Human Values, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa
- 2. Department for the Study of Religions, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana, West Africa
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Christianity and Islam are two major religions that have gained a lot of adherents in the world. In Ghana, adherents of Christianity and Islam have the highest percentage among the three main religions.Albeit both Islam and Christianity claim to be monotheistic,believing inone omnipotent and omniscient supernatural God, their ethical norms and principles, however, manifest similarities and dissimilarities. This paper endeavours to do a critical comparative study of Christian ethics and Islamic ethics, in the Ghanaian context, with the hope that the similarities will strengthen harmonious coexistence while the dissimilarities will task us to target and develop collaborative measures that can ensuremutual understanding and beef upreligious tolerance for the benefit of both religions and their numerous adherents.
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