AcknowledgementsIntroduction 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 Theology2 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 Remarks4 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 Other5 Rashid Ria and Christianity: the Problem of Christian Missions and Ria''s ariq al-Dawa 1 Ria and an 2 Ria and Tarif 3 Ria and Dawa 4 "Missiology" and Ria''s ariq al-Dawa 6 From Dawa to Shahada: 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-Ghazali''s Epistemological Emphasis to Ria''s Fira Focus 3 Ria - Religious Imagination in al-Ghazali''s Soteriological Taxonomy 4 From Dar al-Islam to Dar al-Ahd to Dar al- Dawa 5 From Dawa to Shahada : Tariq Ramadan 5.1 Ramadan''s Call to Western Muslims 5.2 Ramadan''s Fira Anthropology 5.3 From Fira to Shahada 6 From Dar al- Dawa to Dar al-Shahada 7 Concluding Remarks PART 4: Comparative Theological Conclusions: Neo-Calvinism, Islam, and Missiological Comparative Theology7 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 Ria8 Towards a Missiological Comparative Theology 1 Accad''s Kerygmatic Missiology 2 Contemporary Muslim ariq al-Shahada 3 Missio Dei and Comparative TheologyReferencesIndex.