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Hans A. Harmakaputra
A Christian-Muslim
Comparative Theology
of Saints

The Community of God’s Friends

• Currents of Encounter, Band: 67

Leiden: Brill 2022, X, 258 pp., index

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978-90-04-52683-9

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978-90-04-51052-4

The author:
Hans A. Harmakaputra, Assistance Professor at Augustana University
in  Sioux Falls, South Dakota (USA) 

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 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 offers a Christian perspective on an inclusive theology of saints
through the lens of comparative theology that is based on the thought
of Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim theologians:
Karl Rahner, Jean-Luc Marion, Elizabeth Johnson, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Tillich, and Ibn Arabī’.
As a result of this interreligious comparison, three theological constructs emerge:
(1) saints as manifestations and revealers of God’s self-communication,
(2) the hiddenness of saints, and
(3) saints as companions.
• These theological constructs redefine and reconfigure Christian understanding of saints
  on one hand, and on the other hand provide theological reasoning
  to include non-Christians in the Christian notion of the communion of saints.
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                  Inhalt / Contents
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  • Front Matter
    Preliminary Material  
    > Copyright page  > Acknowledgments
    
    
    > Introduction - 

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    1–11
    

    
    Part 1 The Saints in Christianity and Islam
    
    Chapter 1 Contemporary Catholic  Discourse on Theology of  Saints -

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    15–34
    

    
    Chapter 2 Contemporary Protestant Discourse on Theology of Saints --

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    35–62
    

    
    Chapter 3 Friends of God and Sainthood in Islam: An Introduction
    

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    63–86
    

    
    Chapter 4 Friends of God and Sainthood According to Ibn ‘Arabī 
    

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    87–115
    

    
    Part 2 The Saints Reconsidered
    
    Chapter 5 Saints as Manifestations and Revealers of God’s Self-Communication
    

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    119–145
    

    
    Chapter 6 The Hiddenness of Saints -

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    146–171
    

    Chapter 7 Saints as Companions -

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    172–197
    

    
    Chapter 8 Approaching Saints: An Inclusive Christian Theology of Saints in Practice - 

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    198–223
    

    
    Conclusion --- 
    

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    224–229
    

    > Bibliography 
    > Index of Subjects 
    > Index of Scripture Reference