ABSTRACT
When Muslims and Christians engage with each other as Muslims and Christians, their own faith demands that, in some sense, they understand their own scripture as fundamentally right and the other’s scripture as, in some sense, fundamentally wrong. Muslim scholars must choose between three approaches to this dilemma. First, engagement based on a presumption of biblical error; second, agnosticism; and third, a temporary suspension of one’s own beliefs and dogma in order to understand the other. All three are possible, and each one brings its own advantages and disadvantages.
