A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints : : The Community of God's Friends.

• Superior document: Currents of Encounter
• Author: Harmakaputra, Hans A.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Currents of Encounter
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)

"In A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints: The Community of God's Friends, Hans A. Harmakaputra focuses on a question that emerges from today's multi-faith context: "Is it possible for Christians to recognize non-Christians as saints?" To answer affirmatively, he...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Why Saints?
• 2 Reconfiguring Saints and Sainthood: The Quest for an Inclusive Christian Theology of the Saints
• 3 Disciplinary Framework: Comparative Systematic Theology
• 4 Limits of the Study
• 5 Structure
• Part 1 The Saints in Christianity and Islam
• 1 Contemporary Catholic Discourse on Theology of Saints
• 1 Canonization, Intercessory Roles, and Moral Exemplars: Three Features of the Saints in Catholic Teaching
• 2 Saints as Tangible Manifestations of God's Grace in History: Karl Rahner's Theology of Saints
• 3 Remembering the Saints as Friends of God and Prophets: Elizabeth Johnson's Feminist Perspective on the Saints
• 4 The Invisibility of the Saint According to Jean-Luc Marion
• 2 Contemporary Protestant Discourse on Theology of Saints
• 1 Protestant Reformers' Criticism of the Veneration of Saints
• 2 Contemporary Protestant Churches' Approach to Saints
• 3 Contemporary Theological Approaches to a Theology of Saints
• 3.1 A Worldly Saint: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and His Thoughts on Sainthood
• 3.2 Saints as Embodiments of Ultimate Reality: Paul Tillich and His Notion of Saintliness and Sanctification
• 3 Friends of God and Sainthood in Islam: An Introduction
• 1 Clarification of the Key Terms Related to Sainthood
• 2 Signs of Awliyā Allāh: A Phenomenological Approach to Muslim Saints
• 2.1 Reductionist and Relativistic Approaches to Sainthood
• 2.2 Approaching Sainthood as a Tradition in Islam
• 2.3 Miraculous Deeds as the Signs of a Walī: The Case of Abdurrahman Wahid
• 3 Friends of God in the Qur'an and Hadīth: A Textual Approach
• 4 Formulation of Sainthood in the Early Period of Sufism: A Theological Approach
• 4.1 Al-Junayd: Saints as Models for Believers
• 4.2 Hakīm al-Tirmidhī: Sainthood and the Seal of the Saints.
• 4 Friends of God and Sainthood According to Ibn 'Arabī
• 1 Clarification of Ibn ῾Arabī's Key Concepts
• 1.1 Oneness of Being
• 1.2 The Human and the Perfect Human
• 1.3 The "God Created in Beliefs"
• 2 The Realm of the Walāya
• 2.1 The Relationship of Sainthood to Prophethood and Messengerhood
• 2.2 The Universality of Walāya
• 3 The Saints as the Heirs of the Prophets
• 4 The "Hiddenness" of Saints
• Part 2 The Saints Reconsidered
• 5 Saints as Manifestations and Revealers of God's Self-Communication
• 1 The Universality of God's Self-Communication
• 1.1 Grace as the Self-Communication of God
• 1.2 Anonymous Christians
• 1.3 From Anonymous Christians to Saints
• 2 The Particularity of God's Self-Communication
• 2.1 The Role of Jesus Christ in God's Universal Self-Communication
• 2.2 Hidden Saints as Many Mediations
• 3 Towards the Recognition of Hidden Saints
• 3.1 Hidden Saints as the Mystics of Everyday Life
• 3.2 Universal Paths for Realizing God's Grace
• 3.3 Saints as Revealers of New Modes of God's Grace
• 6 The Hiddenness of Saints
• 1 Banality and Holiness: Sanctity as Liminal Space
• 1.1 "He Who Eats Food and Walks in the Markets": Saints in the World
• 1.2 Worldly Saints: Sanctification as the Journey in the Liminal Space
• 2 "Only a Saint Can Recognize Another Saint": A Phenomenology of Sainthood
• 2.1 "The One Who Blames Oneself": The Malāmiyya According to Ibn ῾Arabī
• 2.2 Hiddenness as a Mark of Sainthood
• 2.2.1 Jean-Luc Marion's Account of the Invisibility of a Saint
• 2.2.2 Holiness and the Saturated Phenomenon
• 2.2.3 Sanctity as a Mode of Participation in Holiness
• 3 "He Who Sees You Sees Me": The Transparency and Mediating Role of a Saint
• 3.1 Friends of God as Mediations between God and Human Beings
• 3.2 Saints as Icons of the Invisible God
• 7 Saints as Companions.
• 1 Reinvigorating the Communion of Saints: The Significance of the Companionship Paradigm
• 1.1 The Paradigm of Companionship and Its Significance
• 1.2 The Seal of the Muhammadan Saints and the Problem of Hierarchy
• 2 Expanding the Boundaries of the Communion of Saints
• 2.1 Friends of God and Cloud of Witnesses as Primary Metaphors of the Companionship Paradigm
• 2.2 Reconfiguring the Concept of Intermediation of the Saints
• 3 Following in the Footsteps of the Friends of God
• 3.1 The Intersections of Memory, Hope, and Praxis
• 3.2 Multiple Paths of Holiness
• 3.3 Encountering the Hidden Christ through Praxis
• 8 Approaching Saints: An Inclusive Christian Theology of Saints in Practice
• 1 An Inclusive Christian Theology of Saints: Three Theological Constructs
• 2 The Vox Populi Approach to Sainthood: Weaving Remembrance and Imitation
• 2.1 The Vox Populi and the Catholic Canonization of Saints
• 2.2 Protestantism and the Vox Populi Approach to the Communion of Saints
• 3 Recognizing Saints Interreligiously: Two Case Studies
• 3.1 Frans van der Lugt, SJ
• 3.2 Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur)
• 4 Redefining Sainthood: Saints as "Sign-Events"
• 5 Remembering Gives Rise to Practice
• Conclusion
• 1 Three Theological Constructs
• 2 Types of Learning in Comparative Theology
• 3 Further Directions
• Bibliography
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Scripture Reference.