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