Modern Muslim Theology Engaging God and the World With Faith and Imagination

includes index and biblioraphy

why theology.........1 Muslim Theology ............3 A Muslim theologi of Engagement ........6 Arrangement of the Book ........9 Conventions of the Book ..........10 1. The Language of Theology .........17 Theology ..........17 The Horizon of Engagement ........20 The Measure of Revelation ...........23 The Measure of Modern Time ............29 A pound of Flesh .........29 Life without End ..........31 The Time that remains ............34 End of the end Times ............37 Crisis Continous ...........41 Imagining Traditions ...............53 The Question of Tradition .............53 The Construction of Tradition .......56 The Ka`ba as Tradition ..........60 The Religious Imagination ..............73 Imagine .........73 Reason and Rationalities .............78 The Muslim imaginative Tradition .............81 The Measure of the Religious Imagination .......86 Revelation and Response .............103 The Qur`an as Revelation ...........103 In the MOment of Revelation .........106 Toward a Theology of Prostration .........115 Faith in the Tradition ..........119 A life of Faith ...........119 The Measure of Faith ...............122 Faith in the Changing tradition .........122 A life of Change .............128 Faith in the Forge ............140 Theology in Prostration .........155 Prayer ...........155 A life of Prayer ............158 Prayer in Prostration ...........158 The timing of Prayer .........162 The prostration of Response ...........165 The prostration of Protest .......170 Pray as Though It is your last prayer ........175