Pathways to Reconciliation

Chapter 7 (“Reconciliation Is Possible”) of Samy Tanagho’s Glad News! God Loves You, My Muslim Friend! 2017 as the immediate conversationnnpartner, the analysis traces the dual demand of divine justice and mercy, the requirement of an immaculate Mediator, the shift from ritual performance to regeneration, and the attempt to answer the substitutionary-atonement objection by a self-sacrificial legal payment. Those claims are then located within a broader missiological and epistemological frame: the tension between irenic and polemicalnnengagement, the contrast between Islamic inlibration (the Word made

Book) and Christian incarnation (the Word made flesh), the textimmanent construct popularized as the Islamic Dilemma, and Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s non-supersessionist promise-plan theology. The argument is that genuine reconciliation with God is not secured by minimizing confessional difference or by treating a later book as a replacement of prior sworn oaths. It requires the sinless Mediator whose death and resurrection fulfill the single promise-plan that runs from Genesis 3 15 through Abraham, Sinai, David, and Jeremiah 31 / Ezekiel 36 to John 1 14 and Romans 11 17 29.