The spiritual face-off with Radical Islam is . . . a clash of narratives. . . . Muslims have their story of a deterministic God to whom we all owe utter external obedience in order to please him. . . . Christians have their story of a loving Creator who, in the incarnation, lifts broken and alienated humanity into his incarnate Word and delivers humans from the curse of sin and death by Christ’s cross and empty tomb. He will return to rescue the whole world and rule over his entire creation with peace and justice. . . . The Radical Islamic way is a completely different paradigm of thought. . . . Therefore, to assume that they will reason with Western Christians and come to tolerate our paradigm and way of thinking is futile. It is story versus story.
-Robert E. Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 87-88.