Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Muslim Jesus
1 Muslim Messenger and Prophet
Islam
Jesus the Prophet
Jesus the Messenger
The Human Nature of the Prophets
"Prophet" Jesus in the Gospels
Jesus' Mission
2 The Human Historical Messiah
The Human Jewish Messiah
The Divine Christ
The Human Masih of the Qur'an
Part II: "Son of Mary" Not "Son of God"
3 The Non-Divine Jewish "Sonship of God"
4 The Christian "Sonship of God"
Christian Sons of God
The Unique Son of God
The Eternal Son of John
When Did Jesus' Sonship of God become Special?
Sonship of God, Messiahship, and Miracle Working
Sonship of God and Blasphemy
5 The Qur'an's Rejection of the "Sonship of God"
The Oneness of God
No Offspring of God
Jesus' False "Sonship of God"
6 Son of Man
The Unhistorical Link Between "Son of Man" and "Messiah"
Jesus' Use of the Term "Son of Man"
Part III: A Divine Theology for a Non-Divine Jesus
7 Pauline Christianity
Paul's Unhistorical Jesus
The Doctrine of the Atonement
Johannine Theology: The Ultimate Fruit of Pauline Christianity
The Heterogeneous Scriptural Sources of Christianity
8 The Trinity
The Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity
The Fallacy of the Trinity
9 Jesus: A Man Created by God and a God Created by Humans
Appendix A. The Qur'anic Verses that Refute Jesus' Divinity
References
Index of Qur'anic Verses
Index of Biblical Passages
Index of Names and Subjects