Ma`rifat Adyan

Abstracts On one hand, the encounter of Christianity with some profound doctrines of Islam, such as mystical-moral doctrines and on the other hand, the cultural, social and political doctrines always have been challenging. The claim of denominative entrance of certain Christian in order to confront with these doctrines is an innovative research which has been dealt with in this paper. Drawing upon an analytical-critical method, this paper, while discussing doctrinal approaches of Christianity seeks to deal with the evaluation of the influence of Christianity’s denominative method upon Islamic communities, and show that in spite of the extend of understanding that these denominations have about Islam and their pervasive studies on various dimensions of Islamic doctrines and that they have mobilized material and spiritual resources, they have not been able to achieve much success in changing the Muslims’ religious beliefs. Although Christianity in some stages of its evangelical missions has made use of mystical and moral approaches adopted by some denominations or orders such as Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, or of political, social and cultural approaches adopted by some other orders such as Jesuits Carmelites (O.C.D) and Discalced Carmelites or Barefoot Carmelites (O.C.D). But in the late periods of its current life has turned to Evangelical missions in its approach and in this way it has tried to compensate its past failures..