My presentation sheds light on the unique theology and intellectual biography of Khristufurus Jibara (d. 1901), an Orthodox Christian cleric who was born in Damascus and eventually had a falling out with the church because of his ideas. Influenced by ancient anti-Trinitarian Christian traditions and contemporary puritan Unitarian theology, he developed a doctrine that he called “the straight path,” which harmonized Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. He believed that this harmonization would be the only way overcome the religious conflicts in Greater Syria, the Ottoman Empire, and later in the whole world. Jibara’s political and social theology was criticized by Muslim traditionalists, Christian traditionalists, and Christian secularists, and was accepted with a certain amount of sympathy by prominent Islamic reformers such as Rashid Rida and Muhammad ʿAbduh. Through historical and contextual analysis that highlights the place of the social, as related to nineteenth-century Greater Syria, the political, as related to the Ottoman Empire, and the global, as related to the universal idea of a world religion, the lecture will present the intellectual biography of a prominent scholar whose contribution has been entirely ignored by all the historical publications that have analyzed the intellectual spectrum of Arabic thought on the nineteenth century. In the presentation, I will argue that the influence of nationalism on religious identity and the tendency to use religion as both a dominant definer of political community and its legal basis was present not only among Pan-Islamists but also among Christians, as Jibara’s rare case demonstrates.