Abstract
My papers evaluate Dr. Miroslav Volf’s publications and lectures related to A Common Word. In the epistemology paper I examine Volf’s arguments for a shared monotheism between Christianity and Islam, asking, “By what norm can one determine whether Muslims believe in the same monotheistic God as Christians?” In the ethics paper I explore Volf’s love of neighbor ethic, asking, “By what ethical norms does a Christian love his neighbor, and do Christianity’s ethics share ethical normativity with Islam’s?”
From both the epistemological and ethical perspectives I argue that Dr. Volf’s publications and lectures on A Common Word do not adequately account for the uniqueness of Christianity’s trinitarian God, nor of God’s covenantal relation with man, nor of Christ’s office as mediator.
Epistemology and Ethics Papers
- Why Christ is the epistemological crux between cross and crescent (18pp; .PDF; 211KB)
- Why Christ is the ethical crux between cross and crescent (16pp; .PDF; 182KB)
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[...] notes for each of the lectures.) Then, in May of 2008 I used Volf’s lectures as my topic for two term papers: One paper dealt with Dr. Volf’s methodology from the perspective of epistemology, and the [...]