Jeanie Hannaman

By Marcus Peter, Catholic World Report - Unlike Judaism and Christianity, Islam lacks a developed hereditary tradition capable of sustained moral and theological development across centuries. There exists no magisterium, no binding interpretive authority, and no organic doctrinal development comparable to rabbinic Judaism or the Christian tradition. In Judaism, centuries of rabbinic debate formed a vast oral law ... In Christianity, ecclesial authority preserved doctrinal continuity ... Islam, by contrast, resists such development by its own theological necessity, since the Qur’an is considered the eternal and uncreated word of God, thereby rendering reinterpretation as infidelity.