The Certainty Trap: Can Christians and Muslims afford the luxury of fundamentalism?

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Preface

A certain belief

1. “Fighting” means fighting, for heaven’s sake!
2. This is the way the world ends!

Questioning certainty

3. Sorry, I didn’t really mean that!
4. Here’s what that really means!
5. It makes sense if you take into account…
6. Relying on a text
7. Securing a holy Bible?
8. Ascertaining a holy Qur’an?
9. The clear and the not-so-clear
10. The genius of genealogies

Certain believing amid uncertainty

11. Answering the Islamists
12. Beware the uncertainty trap!
13. Escaping the uncertainty trap!
14. A straight path less certain?

Appendices

Transliteration
An Introductory Bibliography
Glossary
Index