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 Nicholsons 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 Theologys 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 Kuypers Encounter with the Islamic Tradition
2 Herman Bavincks Meditations on Islam
3 Johan Herman Bavincks 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 Rashd Ri and Christianity: the Problem of Christian Missions and Ris
arq al-Dawa
1 Ri and an
2 Ri and Tarf
3 Ri and Dawa
4 Missiology and Ris arq al-Dawa
6 From Dawa to Shahda: Muslim Religious Imagination and the Religious
Other
1 Nguyens Muslim Theology of Imagination and Engagement
1.1 Nguyens Muslim Theology of Prostration
1.2 Nguyens Muslim Theology of Engagement
1.3 Nguyens Muslim Theology of Imagination
2 Reimagining Anthropology: From al-Ghazls Epistemological Emphasis to
Ris Fira Focus
3 Ri Religious Imagination in al-Ghazls Soteriological Taxonomy
4 From Dr al-Islm to Dr al-Ahd to Dr al-Dawa
5 From Dawa to Shahda: Tariq Ramadan
5.1 Ramadans Call to Western Muslims
5.2 Ramadans Fira Anthropology
5.3 From Fira to Shahda
6 From Dr al-Dawa to Dr al-Shahda
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 an
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 Ri
8 Towards a Missiological Comparative Theology
1 Accads Kerygmatic Missiology
2 Contemporary Muslim arq al-Shahda
3 Missio Dei and Comparative Theology
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