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1. Contemporary Muslim and Christian Responses to Religious Plurality
Religious Plurality and the New Global Climate: Present Problems and Possibilities
Taxonomical Problems of Classifying Christian Responses to Religious Plurality
Survey of Christian Responses to Religious Plurality: A Diversity of “Centrisms”
Muslim Responses to Religious Plurality
Taxonomical Problems of Classifying Muslim Responses
to Religious Plurality
2. Contemporary Christian-Muslim Relations: A Brief Historical and Thematic Survey
Meeting Faith to Faith: A Recent History of Muslim-Christian Encounters
The World Council of Churches
Islam and Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Summary and Synthesis: Recurring Themes of Commonality and Conflict
Consistent Conflicts and Barriers in Christian and Muslim Dialogue
Questions of Implementation and Representation
Ethical and Praxiological Themes
Emergent Themes of Commonality
in Christian and Muslim Dialogue
Ethical and Praxiological Themes
Conclusion: Obstacles, Opportunities, or Both? Finding New Ways to Move Forward Together Again
3. God, History, the Future, and Religious Contestation: Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Theology of Religions
Crucial Aspects of Pannenberg’s Systematic Theology: God, Truth, History, Anticipation, and the Future
The Importance of the Idea of God and Reality
Truth as Internal Coherence
Truth as External Correspondence
Truth and Anticipation/ Prolepsis
Pannenberg’s Method for a Theology of Religions: God, Religion, and the Nature of Humanity
The Nature of Religious Progress
A Pannenbergian Theology of Religions
A Trinitarian Theology of Religions
Summary, Critique, and Conclusions
4. Islam, Tolerance, and Democracy: Abdulaziz Sachedina’s Ethically Inclusive Response to Religious Plurality
Sachedina’s Ethical Inclusivism
The People Are One Community
Compete with One Another in Good Works
Forgiveness toward Humankind
Critical Reflections and Analysis: Kudos, Questions, and Concerns
5. Pannenberg and Sachedina in Critical Conversation: Conflict, Cooperation, and Convergence
Purpose and Scope of Pannenberg and Sachedina’s Projects
Areas of Agreement: Commonality and Convergence
God as Holy and Sovereign Lord and Creator
The Historical Nature of Divine Revelation
Human Ethics and Human Nature
Inclusive Theologies of Religions
Eschatology and the End of All Things
Important Areas of Contestation: Finding Truth at the Borders
God’s Basic Nature: Indivisible or Triune?
Salvation, Prolepsis, and the Resurrection of Jesus
The People of God and the Kingdom of Mankind
The Purpose of Interfaith Dialogue
Mutual Resources for a Viable Pluralistic Society
Resources in Sachedina’s Theology of Religions
Resources in Pannenberg’s Theology of Religions
Preliminary Synthesis of Mutual Resources
6. Problems and Possibilities of Religious Plurality Revisited: A Contemporary Vision for the Pluralistic Now and Not-Yet
Barriers to Interfaith Dialogue: Challenging Pluralism’s Claims
Expanding the Boundaries: Learning from and Speaking with Others
Listening to, Learning from, and Forgiving the Other
The Gifts of God to the Whole Human Race
The Need for Religious Freedom and Expression
in Just and Peaceful Societies
Letting Religious Claims and Practices Remain Unrevised
Political, Legislative, Religious, Cultural, Social, and Moral Aspects of Communal Formation: Elements, Examples, and Challenges to Success
The Politics of Freedom:
Fitra, Qalb, and a Genuinely Libertarian Faith
Inter-Institutional Freedom: Religion and State
Religious Freedom within and between Faith Traditions
Nationalism and Religious Loyalties in Society
7. Applying Principles of Interfaith Dialogue: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - A Trinitarian Look at Potential Problems and Possibilities
The Contemporary Muslim Concept of God: Tawhīd and Transcendence
The (Pannenbergian) Christian Concept of a Triune God
God as Three in One: Economy and Immanence
God as One in Three: Essential Unity in Relational Diversity
Explanatory Power and Some Theological Implications of the Doctrine of God
Unity and Differentiation in God
God and the Nature of Creation
God and the Nature of Humanity and Society
God and the Nature of Interfaith Dialogue
8. Hope against Hope: Potential Progress in the Face of (Seemingly) Intransigent Ideologies
Looking to the Future by Means of the Past and Present: The Significance, Value, and Meaning of Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Some Modest Recommendations for Future Christian-Muslim Dialogues
Areas for Further Interaction
Final Summary and Conclusions
Contemporary Muslim and Christian Responses to Religious Plurality
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