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Review of Duane Alexander Miller, Two Stories of Everything: The Competing Metanarratives of Islam and Christianity. Grand Rapids, Michigan, Credo, 2018. This review was published in Mission Studies, Vol 36, 1/2019, p. 145-146.
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- Miller critiques Enlightenment views on religion's privatization, proposing metanarratives govern both Islam and Christianity.
- The Christian metanarrative identifies spiritual death and sin as the central problem, resolved by the kingdom of God.
- Islam views ignorance of God's will as the core issue, resolved through prophets culminating in Muhammad.
- Miller's comparative analysis spans creation, anthropology, ethics, and eschatology within both faiths.
- He discusses secular humanism as a failing metanarrative, asserting that Christianity and Islam represent viable future options.
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