Four Marks of the Church adjective ("katholikos"), meaning "general", "universal". It is associated with the Greek adverb ("katholou"), meaning "according to the whole", "entirely", or "in general", a combination of the preposition meaning "according to" and the adjective meaning "whole". Applied to the church, the adjective "catholic" means that in the church the wholeness of the Christian faith, full and complete, all-embracing, and with nothing lacking, is proclaimed to all people without excluding any part of the faith or any class or group of people. The adjective can be applied not only to the church as spread throughout the world but also to each local
The Elephant in the Dark – Christianity, Islam and the Sufis of Muslims, respect for Christianity is built into the foundations of Islam in the Quran, and Jesus is regarded as a pillar of their religion. Muhammad himself lay down the foundations of respect for Christianity both by precept and by example, although there was a difference between what he taught and what his successors made of it. Christians in the West, on the other hand, have been much more lacking in accurate information about, and appreciation for, Islam. Shah provides an exposition of the basic Arabic triconsonantal root “SLM” and its associated word groupings: Islam, Muslim, Salem, salaam, and so