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Jesus is considered one of the most important prophets in Islam. In the Qur’an he is called a sign of God, and yet his position in Islam is different from his status in Christianity. The Other Prophet is an unprecedented attempt to investigate the Qur’anic Jesus from both Muslim and Christian perspectives. This book has three principal goals: to chronicle various debates surrounding Jesus in the Qur’an and consider how a detailed analysis might contribute to the productive coexistence of Christians and Muslims today; to demonstrate the great hermeneutic importance of studying Christology for an enhanced understanding of the Qur’an; and, lastly, to show how an examination of the Qur’an for Christians can deepen their faith in Jesus.
List of contents
1. Introduction
2. The State of Christology in the Seventh Century
2.1 The Chalcedon controversy
2.2 A political compromise on dogma
2.3 The neo-Chalcedonian doctrine of enhypostasis
2.4 Christological debates among non-Chalcedonians
2.5 The Arabian Peninsula as a confluence of heresies?
2.6 The situation in the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century
3. New Developments in Modern Christology
3.1 The starting point of consciousness Christology
3.2 The modern paradigm shift in relational ontology and its impact on Christology
3.3 Testing against the historical Jesus
3.4 Multiple incarnations?
4. A Holistic Reading of Surahs 19, 3 and 5 in the Context of a Diachronic Reading of the Qur’an’s Verses about Jesus
4.1 Jesus in Surah Maryam
4.1.1 Zachariah and John
4.1.2 Mary and her child
4.1.3 Jesus’s self-image
4.1.4 An anti-Christological intervention in Q 19:34–40?
4.1.5 Further themes in Surah Maryam
4.1.6 Prophetological consolidation in the late Meccan and early Medinan periods
4.2 Surah al ‘Imran
4.2.1 Prologue (verses 1–32)
4.2.2 Narrative core (verses 33–62)
4.2.3 Religio-political arguments (verses 63–99)
4.2.4 Self-assurance of the Muslim community (verses 100–200)
4.2.5 Jesus crucified?
4.3 Surah al-Ma’ida
4.3.1 Structure and themes of the surah
4.3.2 Criticism of any deification of human beings
4.3.3 A break with Christianity?
5. Jesus’s Position in Qur’anic Prophetology (Zishan Ghaffar)
5.1 the early Meccan surahs: eschatological prophecy
5.1.1 Imminent eschatological expectation?
5.2 The middle Meccan surahs: prophetology as a combination of salvation, election and mercy
5.2.1 The new context of the proclamation in the middle Meccan
period and its central topoi
5.2.2 The Qur’an’s apostolic doctrine in the middle Meccan period
5.2.3 The birth of prophecy out of God’s mercy
5.2.4 Muhammad as Moses redivivus – the consolidation of Qur’anic prophetology in the middle Meccan period
5.3 Late Meccan prophetology: the apology of the messengers
5.4 Qur’anic prophetology in Medina
5.4.1 from existential to textual typology
5.4.2 from community of fate to the universal community of the covenant: Qur’anic prophetology between universality and
exclusivity
5.4.3 the Messenger Muhammad as lawmaker and his special
prestige as a prophetic dignitary
5.4.4 Prophetology as a counter-discourse to Christology?
6. The Work of Jesus Christ and the Qur’an: A Forensic Search for Functional Equivalents
6.1 God’s self-revelation in the Islamic tradition (with the involvement of Darius asghar-Zadeh)
6.2 The relation between God and humans as a liberating relationship
6.3 On the soteriological relevance of the Qur’an (with the involvement of Darius asghar-Zadeh)
6.4 Can God suffer?
6.5 Qur’anic stimuli for conceiving of emotions in God
7. New Perspectives on the Qur’an
7.1 Systematic conclusions from a Christian perspective
7.2 Systematic conclusions from a Muslim perspective
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About the author
Mouhanad Khorchide is professor of Islamic Studies and head of the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster.
Klaus von Stosch is professor of Catholic Theology and Didactics and chair of the Centre for Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn.
Simon Pare is a translator from French and German who lives in Paris.
