“Do we worship the same God?” This has become a hotly contested and divisive question, posed in these troubled days by many Christians about Muslims and Islam. Miroslav Volf, who is Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale, offers an answer in his latest book, Allah: A Christian Response. Volf’s influence is considerable, and this book deserves careful consideration. Volf comes to this question with three formative influences, and an agenda. His first influence is a long-standing engagement with the theology of reconciliation and conflict resolution, out of which he wrote his acclaimed book Exclusion and Embrace (1994).…