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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