Christian Theology and Islam

Michael Root is Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America and Executive Director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology. He was formerly the Director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg, France.James J. Buckley is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. He has recently contributed to and edited (with Frederick Bauerschmidt and Trent Pomplun) 'The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism' (Blackwells, 2007). He is associate director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

• Introduction - Michael Root and James J. Buckley1. The Unity and Trinity of God. Christian Doctrinal Development in Response to the Challenge of Islam - Sidney H. Griffith2. Abu Ra'itah al-Takriti and God's Divine Pedagogy - Sandra Keating3. Apology, or its Evasion? Some Ninth-Century Arabic Christian Texts on Discerning the True Religion - Mark N. Swanson4.Christian theology in conversation with Judaism and Islam - David B. Burrell, C.S.C.5. The Missing Peace of Evangelical Missiology. Peacemaking and Respectful Witness - Rick Love6. In Search of New Approaches to Inter- and Intra-Religious Christian and Muslim Debates - Nelly van Doorn-Harder.Short descriptions of authors and editors.Index

"Christian Theology and Islam is a fascinatingly ecclectic book. ... This would be a usefull addition to the shelves of a library or specialist scholar, but anyone with any interest in engaging with muslims should buy the book just for chapters three and five."-Anvil, vol 31, issue 1, March 2015 "Full of scholarly detail ... the gem in the book is an essay on 'The Missing Peace of Evangelical Missiology' in which the author argues that the Christian's mandates of peace-making and evangelising not only can go hand in hand but must be pursued together. This has application well beyond the area of Christian-Muslim dialogue which is the focus of the book."-Gertrud Sollars, The Reader, Volume 113, Issue 2, Summer 2015"The merit of this book consists in presenting effective systems for approaching an interfaith dialogue with Islam."-Alessandro Giostra, Reviews in Religion and Theology 23:1, 2016