Unveiling God
Revealing the God Who Speaks Across Every Culture
Unveiling God explores how God's self-revelation—culminating in Jesus Christ—can be faithfully and meaningfully communicated within Islamic contexts. Martin Parsons offers a robust theological framework for understanding divine revelation, emphasizing both the universal and culturally particular ways God makes Himself known. Drawing on biblical theology, missiology, and intercultural studies, the book addresses how Muslims perceive God and how the Christian message can be presented without compromising the gospel or obscuring its clarity. Parsons encourages readers to consider how honor-shame dynamics, communal identity, and Qur’anic misunderstandings shape Muslim responses to Christ.
Unveiling God equips missionaries, theologians, and church leaders to proclaim Jesus as the fullest expression of God’s self-disclosure in ways that resonate cross-culturally and theologically. This is a thoughtful and essential guide for anyone seeking to make Christ known in Muslim-majority settings while remaining rooted in Scripture.
Endorsements
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This book focuses on an enlightening comparison of the "mindset of Islamic cultures" with the mindset of "second temple Judaism." The author suggests that there is a model to be derived from the New Testament for conveying the idea that Christ might be presented to humankind as divine "from above" as it were, rather than expecting humans to work out "from below" that Jesus is more than a man. The book issues in some suggested "cantos" for public affirmation and worship that depend upon this more "theocentric" approach to declaring who Jesus Christ is. It is a fascinating and creative contribution to the delicate task of contextualising Christology for Muslim cultures.
Dr. Bill MuskAuthor, The Unseen Face of Islam and Touching the Soul of Islam
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Parsons had shown how fresh appreciation of the Jewish monotheistic context of New Testament christology can assist the contextualization of christology in Islamic contexts today. This is an important book not only for Christians in dialogue with Muslims, but also for all who wrestle with the relationship between belief in the one God and the Christian confession of the deity of Jesus Christ.
Professor Richard BauckhamFBA, FRSE, Professor of New Testament Studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor University of St. Andrew
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Muslim responses to Christianity down the ages have been shaped by diverse factors. One of the primary stumbling blocks has been Muslim misperceptions of Christian core beliefs about the person of Jesus and the nature of God.
In this study, Martin Parsons seeks to present Jesus to Muslims in a way which is harmonised with Muslim cultural realities. He argues that previous attempts by Christian scholars to do so have been typically based on a misreading by the Christians concerned of what would be understandable to a Muslim audience. Parsons proposes instead an approach which draws heavily on that used by early Christian writers in presenting Jesus to Jewish audiences. This study includes a practical example of contextualisation which should provide great insights to Christians who are trying to explain their faith to Muslims in diverse contexts.
Peter G. RiddellProfessor of Islamics and Director, Centre for Muslim-Christian Relations, London School of Theology
Additional Details
- Pages: 400
- Publisher: William Carey Library
- Binding: Paperback
- Publish Year: 2006
- ISBN: 9780878084548
- Vendor: William Carey Library
