Topic > Dialog Review - 572

In this article, Moser discusses practical ways Christians can enter into faithful interreligious dialogue through incarnational Christology. “Just as Christ remained God” writes Moser, “so the Christian maintains the integrity of his Christian confession” (Moser, page 231). This means that, just as Christ became fully human while retaining his divinity, Christians should maintain their central confessions and at the same time enter into the wholeness of the other. For Moser, it is only by imitating the duality of Christ that Christians can maintain their identity by relating faithfully to the stranger. Moser demonstrates this interreligious commitment by analyzing Islamic and Lutheran understandings of sin and demonstrating how Islamic understandings of Christ are shaped by his hematology. Moser notes that the central theological divergence between Christianity and Islam is in their understanding of the anthropology or human condition that causes the different conceptions of Christ. As a Lutheran Christian, Moser turns to Luther to show the low a...