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by Alexander E. Massad (Author)
This book is a comparative theological investigation into the following question: how does one theologically understand the sincere-truth-seeking religious other who rejects one's truth claims not out of animosity or ignorance, but rather from a desire to worship God in spirit and in truth? Specifically, this book investigates the extent to which soteriologically exclusivist Muslims and Christians maintain their respective truth claims while maintaining a posture of vulnerability to the revisionary power of the religious other's claims. To answer these questions, this book examines comparative theology's missiological foundation through a dialogical study of neo-Calvinist and Reformist Sunni understandings of the epistemic status of the religious other. This book is a practice in comparative theology with the goal of rethinking neo-Calvinist theology of religions through Islamic thought to present a missiological comparative theology amenable to exclusivist theological positions within Christianity and Islam.
Author Biography
Alexander E. Massad, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of World Religions at Wheaton College (IL) and an Affiliate Faculty in the School of Mission and Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary (CA). He is a comparative theologian whose research and publications focus on Evangelical and Reformed theology in dialogue with the Muslim tradition.
