Witnessing God: Christians, Muslims, and the Comparative Theology of Missions

Author:   Alexander E. Massad
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   68
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9789004519114


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 December 2024
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Author:   Alexander E. Massad
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   68
Weight:   0.486kg
ISBN:  

9789004519114


ISBN 10:   9004519114
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Acknowledgements Introduction  1 Purpose and Outline of the Book  2 Clarifications and Nuances PART 1: Methods, Comparative Theology, and Missions 1 A Historical Account of Christians Accounting for Non-Christians  1 Missionaries, the “Old” Comparative Theology, and the Scientific Study of Religion  2 The Theology of Religions: a Response to Christian Primacy  3 The “New” Comparative Theology: an A Posteriori Response to Hegemony  4 Assessing the “Dialectical” Narrative  5 Critique of Nicholson’s Narrative – Overstating the Dialectic  6 The Missionary Spirit in Comparative Theology 2 The Potential for a Missiological Comparative Theology  1 Evangelical Concerns: Comparative Theology, Multiple Religious Belonging, and Missions  2 Hegemonic Discourse: Comparative Theology’s Amenability to Missiology   2.1 The Promise of a Missiological Comparative Theology  3 An Aggiornamento for Exclusivism and Comparative Theology  4 Review of Part One PART 2:Neo-Calvinism and the Islamic Tradition 3 A Neo-Calvinist Comparative Theology  1 Neo-Calvinist Soteriology and Epistemology  2 Neo-Calvinist Comparative Theology and Soteriological Exclusivism  3 Warranting a Neo-Calvinist Comparative Theology   3.1 Abraham Kuyper: Common Grace and Comparative Theology   3.2 Herman Bavinck: General Revelation and Comparative Theology   3.3 Contemporary Neo-Calvinist Approaches to Common Grace and General Revelation  4 Developing a Neo-Calvinist Comparative Theological Perspective  5 Concluding Remarks 4 Neo-Calvinist Approaches to Muslims and the Islamic Tradition  1 Abraham Kuyper’s Encounter with the Islamic Tradition  2 Herman Bavinck’s Meditations on Islam  3 Johan Herman Bavinck’s Preoccupation with Islam  4 Assessing Early Neo-Calvinist Theological Engagements with Muslims and the Islamic Tradition  5 Contemporary Neo-Calvinist Approaches to Muslims and the Islamic Tradition   5.1 Contemporary Antithesis-Driven Neo-Calvinist Approaches to Muslims and the Islamic Tradition   5.2 Bartholomew and Strange: a Priori Presuppositionalism  6 Contemporary Common-Grace-Driven Neo-Calvinist Approaches to Muslims and the Islamic Tradition   6.1 Mouw and Kaemingk: an Unwitting Perpetuation of Binaries  7 The Need for a Neo-Calvinism Aggiornamento with Muslims and the Islamic Tradition PART 3: Contemporary Reformist Muslims and the Religious Other 5 Rashīd Riḍā and Christianity: the Problem of Christian Missions and Riḍā’s Ṭarīq al-Daʿwa  1 Riḍā and Ṭaʿn  2 Riḍā and Taḥrīf  3 Riḍā and Daʿwa  4 “Missiology” and Riḍā’s Ṭarīq al-Daʿwa 6 From Daʿwa to Shahāda: Muslim Religious Imagination and the Religious Other  1 Nguyen’s Muslim Theology of Imagination and Engagement   1.1 Nguyen’s Muslim Theology of Prostration   1.2 Nguyen’s Muslim Theology of Engagement   1.3 Nguyen’s Muslim Theology of Imagination  2 Reimagining Anthropology: From al-Ghazālī’s Epistemological Emphasis to Riḍā’s Fiṭra Focus  3 Riḍā – Religious Imagination in al-Ghazālī’s Soteriological Taxonomy  4 From Dār al-Islām to Dār al-ʿAhd to Dār al-Daʿwa  5 From Daʿwa to Shahāda: Tariq Ramadan   5.1 Ramadan’s Call to Western Muslims   5.2 Ramadan’s Fiṭra Anthropology   5.3 From Fiṭra to Shahāda  6 From Dār al-Daʿwa to Dār al-Shahāda  7 Concluding Remarks PART 4: Comparative Theological Conclusions: Neo-Calvinism, Islam, and Missiological Comparative Theology 7 Reconfiguring Neo-Calvinism through Islamic Thought  1 Idenburg: a Case Study in Colonial Neo-Calvinism  2 Colonial Neo-Calvinism and Ṭaʿn  3 Perpetuating the Problem: a Priori Presuppositionalist Neo-Calvinism   3.1 The Ethical Problems of Antithesis-Driven A Priori Presuppositionalism  4 Assessing Ethical Implications within Common-Grace Driven Neo-Calvinism  5 An a Posteriori Autobiographically Vulnerable Neo-Calvinism: Readings Romans 1 with Riḍā 8 Towards a Missiological Comparative Theology  1 Accad’s Kerygmatic Missiology  2 Contemporary Muslim Ṭarīq al-Shahāda  3 Missio Dei and Comparative Theology References Index

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