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Category: Islamic Theology
Comparative theological examination of Islamic claims.
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The Abrahamic Gospel: Covenantal Lineage, Typological Atonement, and the Textual Dialectic in Christian–Muslim Polemics
The Abrahamic promise is an advance announcement of the gospel, joining justification by faith, covenantal lineage, messianic seed, substitution, and blessing for the nations.
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The Covenant of Promise: Abrahamic Lineage, Prophetic Inheritance, and Covenantal Atonement in Christian–Muslim Encounter
This study examines Abraham as a contested figure in Christian–Muslim theology, focusing on the covenantal line through Isaac, the identity of the son in the sacrifice tradition, and the relationship between promise, substitution, and revelation.
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Decoding Muhammad’s Original Mandate
This essay re-examines the Qurʾān’s self-description of Muḥammad’s commission against the later Standard Islamic Narrative and against Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan reading of the Protestant canon.
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Adam in Islam and Biblical Theology
This study compares Adam in the Qur’an, Islamic commentary and hadith with the biblical account, tracing how each tradition frames human vocation, sin, repentance, and redemption.
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Pathways to Reconciliation
This essay examines the theological, methodological, and historicalcritical foundations of reconciliation between God and humanity as those foundations appear in Christian–Muslim encounters. Taking
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Decoding Islamic Origins
Classical Islamic dogmatics asserts that the Qurʾān was dictated verbatim in a seventh-century Meccan dialect, standardized under Caliph ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, and preserved with letter-perfect uniformity from an uncreated tablet (al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ).
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Decoding the Syro-Aramaic and Sectarian Christian Roots of the Qurʾān: A Philological, Historical-Critical, and Biblical-Theological Assessment
The Standard Islamic Narrative asserts that the Qurʾān was revealed verbatim in the seventh-century Meccan dialect of the Quraysh, standardized under Caliph ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, and preserved with letterperfect vocalic and consonantal uniformity.
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The Unchanging Text in Flux
This essay offers a historical-critical and biblical-theological appraisal of the popular claim that the Qurʾān has been preserved with letter-for-letter, grapheme-for-grapheme identity from the recitation associated with Muḥammad (ca. 610 632 CE to the printed text in global…
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The Theological Engineering of Muḥammad’s Biography: Historiographical Distance, Codicological Reality, and the Promise-Plan of Divine Revelation
This essay offers a historical-critical and biblical-theological appraisal of early Islamic origins, with particular attention to the construction of Muḥammad’s biography (sīra) and the literature of the prophetic tradition (ḥadīth).
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Deconstructing the Historical Muhammad and the Meccan Myth
Classical Islamic dogmatics has long maintained the Standard Islamic Narrative: that the Qurʾān is an uncreated, letter-perfect revelation dictated in the Ḥijāzī sanctuary of Mecca between 610 and 632 CE and preserved on a heavenly tablet (al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ).