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Crisis, call, and leadership in the Abrahamic traditions / edited by Peter Ochs and William Stacy Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abrahamic religions.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Religions--Relations.
- Religions.
- Relations.
- Abraham (Biblical patriarch).
- Abraham.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 277 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Summary:
- Over three years of study and fellowship, sixteen Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars sought to answer one question: "Do our three scriptures unite or divide us?" They offer their answers in this book: sixteen essays on how certain ways of reading scripture may draw us apart and other ways may draw us, together, into the source that each tradition calls peace. Reading scriptural sources in the classical and medieval traditions, the authors examine how each tradition addresses the "other" within its tradition and without, how all three traditions attend to poverty as a societal and spiritual condition, and what it means to read scripture while facing the challenges of modernity. Ochs and Johnson have assembled a unique approach to inter-religious scholarship and a rare look at scriptural study as a pathway to peace.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Crisis and the call to leadership in the Abrahamic traditions / William Stacy Johnson and Peter Ochs
- Pt. I. Communal identity and the other. Introduction: The other within and the other without / William Stacy Johnson
- The sign of Jonah : a Christian perspective on the relation of the Abrahamic faiths / R. Kendall Soulen
- Hagar and Esau : from others to sisters and brothers / Steven Kepnes
- Qur'an and the image of the "other" : the good, the bad, the ugly / Mehdi Aminrazavi
- "These are the generations" : reasoning with Rabbi Samuel ben Meier / Michael A. Signer
- Three voices, one response : here I am : a reformed Christian perspective on Abraham's dilemma / William Stacy Johnson
- Pt. II. Spirituality and social responsibility : poverty and charity. Introduction: The cry of the poor / Kevin L. Hughes
- The poor are always with you / Kevin L. Hughes
- Hearing the cry of the poor / Aryeh Cohen
- The tests of poverty : Qu'ranic perspectives / Timothy J. Gianotti
- In the bosom of Abraham : Saint Bonaventure, Lazarus, and the houses of hospitality / Ann W. Astell
- Charity and the good life : on Islamic prophetic ethics / Mohammed Azadpur
- Lawe, loue, and lewete : the Kenotic vision of traditional Christian political theology / R.R. Reno
- Pt. III. Abrahamic traditions and modernity. Introduction: The Scriptural traditions and modernity : the unhappy relations between traditions and modern historical consciousness / Maria Masi Dakake
- Human contention and divine argument : faith and truth in the Qur'anic story of Abraham / Maria Masi Dakake
- Abraham in the image of Job : a model for postcritical readings of Scripture / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
- Moses and the mountain of knowledge / Robert W. Jenson
- Moses in the sea : reading Scripture as liturgical performance / Peter Ochs
- Transfigured exegesis / C. Clifton Black.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0230618251
- 9780230618251
- OCLC:
- 308174443
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