Witnessing God

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