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Category: Islam, Politics & Polemics
Historically grounded and textually rigorous engagement with religious and public claims.
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The Virgin Birth in Christian–Muslim Polemics
The Gospels and Qurʾān affirm Mary’s virginal conception while assigning it different theological meanings. This study compares the narratives, Christological titles, Late Antique parallels, and the event’s place within the biblical promise-plan.
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Jesus Christ as Rūḥun Minhu and Kalimatuhū
This study evaluates the Qurʾānic titles “His Word” and “a spirit from Him” as internal Christological pressure points without treating them as Nicene proof-texts.
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Jesus: The Eternal Spirit and the Incarnate Logos
This study tests Qurʾānic Word-and-Spirit titles for Jesus against classical Islamic interpretation and the biblical identity of the incarnate Logos.
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Al-Masīḥ: The Divine Messiah—A Biblical-Theological Analysis of Messianic Identity, Inlibration versus Incarnation, and Intertextual Polemics in Christian–Muslim Encounter
The Qurʾānic title Al-Masīḥ is traced back through its Jewish and biblical meanings to test whether it can be reduced to an undefined honorific.
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The Momentous Sacrifice: Typology, Substitutionary Ransom, and the Promise-Plan of Redemption in Christian–Muslim Polemics
The Qurʾānic “momentous sacrifice” is examined alongside Genesis 22 and the canonical trajectory of substitution, ransom, and messianic fulfillment.
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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