7.2. Systematic conclusions from a Muslim perspective
Intro; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The State of Christology in the Seventh Century; 2.1. The Chalcedon controversy; 2.2. A political compromise on dogma; 2.3. The Neo-Chalcedonian doctrine of enhypostasis; 2.4. Christological debates among non-Chalcedonians; 2.5. The Arabian Peninsula as a confluence of heresies?; 2.6. The situation in the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century; 3. New Developments in Modern Christology; 3.1. The starting point of consciousness Christology; 3.2. The modern paradigm shift in relational ontology and its impact on Christology
3.3. Testing against the historical Jesus3.4. Multiple incarnations?; 4. A Holistic Reading of Surahs 19, 3 and 5 in the Context of a Diachronic Reading of the Qur'an's Verses about Jesus; 4.1. Jesus in Surah Maryam; 4.1.1. Zachariah and John; 4.1.2. Mary and her child; 4.1.3. Jesus's self-image; 4.1.4. An anti-Christological intervention in Q 19:34-40?; 4.1.5. Further themes in Surah Maryam; 4.1.6. Prophetological consolidation in the late Meccan and early Medinan periods; 4.2. Surah Al 'Imran; 4.2.1. Prologue (verses 1-32); 4.2.2. Narrative core (verses 33-62)
4.2.3. Religio-political arguments (verses 63-99)4.2.4. Self-assurance of the Muslim community (verses 100-200); 4.2.5. Jesus crucified?; 4.3. Surah al-Ma'ida; 4.3.1. Structure and themes of the surah; 4.3.2. Criticism of any deification of human beings; 4.3.3. A break with Christianity?; 5. Jesus's Position in Qur'anic Prophetology; 5.1. T he early Meccan surahs: eschatological prophecy; 5.1.1 Imminent eschatological expectation?; 5.2. T he middle Meccan surahs: prophetology as a combination of salvation, election and mercy
5.2.1 The new context of the proclamation in the middle Meccan period and its central topoi5.2.2 The Qur'an's apostolic doctrine in the middle Meccan period; 5.2.3 The birth of prophecy out of God's mercy; 5.2.4 Muhammad as Moses redivivus -- the consolidation of Qur'anic prophetology in the middle Meccan period; 5.3 Late Meccan prophetology: the apology of the messengers; 5.4 Qur'anic prophetology in Medina; 5.4.1 From existential to textual typology; 5.4.2 From community of fate to the universal community of the covenant: Qur'anic prophetology between universality and exclusivity
5.4.3 The Messenger Muhammad as lawmaker and his special prestige as a prophetic dignitary5.4.4 Prophetology as a counter-discourse to Christology?; 6. The Work of Jesus Christ and the Qur'an: A Forensic Search for Functional Equivalents; 6.1. God's self-revelation in the Islamic tradition?; 6.2. The relation between God and humans as a liberating relationship; 6.3. On the soteriological relevance of the Qur'an; 6.4. Can God suffer?; 6.5. Qur'anic stimuli for conceiving of emotions in God; 7. New Perspectives on the Qur'an; 7.1. Systematic conclusions from a Christian perspective