The Functional Analysis of believing the Messiah and its Role in Creating Convergence among Abrahamic Religions

In the contemporary world, religions face relatively similar challenges that need to be addressed in order to overcome them. Convergence of religions, in spite of all intellectual and practical differences, can pave the way for passing these challenges. Therefore, research and investigation of the factors and ways of achieving this convergence in this regard is inevitable. In this paper, the content analysis method is used. In this method, by referring to the sacred texts of Abrahamic religions and describing and analyzing the doctrine of believing in a Messiah as well as discovering the commonalities, they have been used as a tool for convergence. In this paper, a model for the convergence of Abrahamic religions based on the belief in the Promised person is presented, according to this model, the doctrine of Messianism in the Abrahamic religions shows two similar components of a desirable future and a state of existent disarray. These constituents exclude the Messianism in Abrahamic religions from merely being “an idea” and transform it from a mere belief into “discourse” and an infrastructure for the social activities of the followers of these religions. In this discourse, the Messianism leads to the discovery of similar insights, tendencies and acts among the followers of these religions, the result of this similarity will be convergence.