This is a love story- a story of transformation, as God notices and pursues a pregnant and abused runaway slave girl. He values her and reminds her, through naming her son, that he is listening.  Hagar's gift to God is that she names him: "the God who sees." 

This is an academic book that features two Arab theologians of the medieval period who shared their understanding of God's Trinitarian persons with their Muslim counterparts. Is God's primary character love, leading to relationality or is it power? That question is still asked as Muslims and Christians meet and talk about the God they love and worship. 

Jesus leads Peter on the journey of a disciple, reshaping the inner person, bringing Peter face to face with his shadow self. He is re-formed into "the Rock" as his expectations and responses are challenged, leading him into a relational trust of Jesus aligned with his Kingdom. The Jesus-way of discipleship is personal and accessible.

This book tackles the question of seeing...particularly how we see the Muslim other. It asks the reader to consider changing the lenses he or she is looking through, attempting to see the other as Jesus did. It's a tall order, but worth the effort.