Contemporary Muslim and Christian Responses to Religious Plurality

6. Problems and Possibilities of Religious Plurality Revisited: A Contemporary Vision for the Pluralistic Now and Not-Yet -- Barriers to Interfaith Dialogue: Challenging Pluralism's Claims -- Expanding the Boundaries: Learning from and Speaking with Others -- Listening to, Learning from, and Forgiving the Other -- Humility in Dialogue -- The Gifts of God to the Whole Human Race -- The Need for Religious Freedom and Expression in Just and Peaceful Societies -- Letting Religious Claims and Practices Remain Unrevised -- Political, Legislative, Religious, Cultural, Social, and Moral Aspects of Communal Formation: Elements, Examples, and Challenges to Success -- The Politics of Freedom: Fitra, Qalb, and a Genuinely Libertarian Faith -- Inter-Institutional Freedom: Religion and State -- Religious Freedom within and between Faith Traditions -- Nationalism and Religious Loyalties in Society -- The Problem of Apostasy -- Conclusion -- 7. Applying Principles of Interfaith Dialogue: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- A Trinitarian Look at Potential Problems and Possibilities -- The Contemporary Muslim Concept of God: Tawhīd and Transcendence -- The (Pannenbergian) Christian Concept of a Triune God -- God as Three in One: Economy and Immanence -- God as One in Three: Essential Unity in Relational Diversity -- Explanatory Power and Some Theological Implications of the Doctrine of God -- Unity and Differentiation in God -- God and the Nature of Creation -- God and the Nature of Humanity and Society -- God and the Nature of Interfaith Dialogue -- Summary and Conclusion -- 8. Hope against Hope: Potential Progress in the Face of (Seemingly) Intransigent Ideologies -- Looking to the Future by Means of the Past and Present: The Significance, Value, and Meaning of Christian-Muslim Dialogue -- Some Modest Recommendations for Future Christian-Muslim Dialogues.