ABSTRACT
The theologies of both Islam and Christianity are, at heart, theologies of salvation. Thus, fundamentally, their interfaith theologies must be considered as interfaith theologies of salvation. Inter-faith soteriology is therefore conditioned by such questions as who can be saved, what is the telos of salvation and how is that salvation possible. This chapter deploys a simple contrastive textual semiotic approach, theologically rooted and articulated, in an endeavour to highlight these key questions, compares the answers, uncovers the possible interplay between Islam and Christianity in their distinctive soteriologies and presents a comparative paradigm. In its view of God, the Qur'an presents both the apophatic and cataphatic perspectives. The modalities of interfaith dialogue are diverse: there are the dialogue of charity, the dialogue of theology, the dialogue of presence and the dialogue of proclamation. Such dialogues for the Christian are not optional.
