Witnessing God

Christians, Muslims, and the Comparative Theology of Missions
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-51911-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Currents of Encounter

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massad, Alexander E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Rashid Rida and Christianity: the Problem of Christian Missions and Rida’s Tariq al-Da'wa

1 Rida and Ta'n

2 Rida and Tahrif

3 Rida and Da'wa

4 “Missiology” and Rida’s Tariq al-Da'wa

6 From Da'wa to Shahada: 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-Ghazali’s Epistemological Emphasis to Rida’s Fitra Focus

3 Rida – Religious Imagination in al-Ghazali’s Soteriological Taxonomy

4 From Dar al-Islam to Dar al-'Ahd to Dar al-Da'wa

5 From Da'wa to Shahada: Tariq Ramadan

5.1 Ramadan’s Call to Western Muslims

5.2 Ramadan’s Fitra Anthropology

5.3 From Fitra to Shahada

6 From Dar al-Da'wa to Dar al-Shahada

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 Ta'n

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 Rida

8 Towards a Missiological Comparative Theology

1 Accad’s Kerygmatic Missiology

2 Contemporary Muslim Tariq al-Shahada

3 Missio Dei and Comparative Theology

References

Index