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Law and the rule of God : a Christian engagement with Shari'a / Joshua Ralston.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Ralston, Joshua, author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
Series:
Current issues in theology
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Dialogue--Religious aspects--Islam.
Dialogue.
Dialogue--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Islam and secularism.
Islamic law.
Public law.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
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Place of Publication:
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration and Texts
1 Christian Political Theology as Comparative Theology
Christian Political Theology's Methodological Lacuna
Comparative Theology
David Burrell and a Comparative Account of Creation
A Comparative Political Theology of Law
2 Neither Conciliation nor Confrontation: A Comparative Approach to Sharī'a and Islamic Jurisprudence
Models of Political Conciliation: Küng and Knitter
Hans Küng: Dialogue for a Shared Global Ethic
Ethical Essence and Legal Perversion
The Interconnection of Law and Ethics in Classical Sharī'a
Liberalism as Premature Conciliation and the Foreclosure of Dialogue
Paul Knitter: Another Model of Political Conciliation
Models of Confrontation: Milbank
John Milbank: Against Dialogue
Islam as Case Study of Milbank's Cultural Confrontation Model
Conclusion: Sharī'a and the Need for Christian Theological Engagement
3 ''That Hideous Schizophrenia'': A Genealogy of Muslim Critiques of Christian Theologies of the Law
Christian Accounts of the Law in Qur'ānic Perspective
The Qur'ānic Grounding for Muslim Discussions of Christianity and Law
Taḥrīf and Early Muslim Interpretation of Christian Scripture and Law
The Beginnings of an Islamic Theo-Legal Critique of Christianity
The Law in Ibn Taymiyya's al-Jawāb al-Ṣaḥiḥ
A Summary of the Letter from Cyprus/Paul of Antioch's Claims about the Law
Ibn Taymiyya's Response
Modern Muslim Critiques of Christianity, Law, and Secularism
That Hideous Schizophrenia: Christianity in the Thought of Sayyid Quṭb
A Traditional Islamic 'Ulamā Critique of Secularism: Syed Naquib al-Attas
Law in Muslim-Christian Dialogue: The Case of Seyyed Nasr
Conclusion: From Interfaith Listening to Constructive Christian Engagement
4 The Difficulty with Distinctions: Justin Martyr, Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther on Law
The Place of the Law in the New Testament
An Early Christian Case Study: Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho
A Brief Excursus on Justinian Corpus Iuris Civilis
Medieval Case Study: Thomas Aquinas
The Eternal and Natural Law
Human Law
The Need for Divine Law
Old Law
New Law
Human Law after the New Law?
Reformation Case Study: Martin Luther
The Distinction between the Law and the Gospel
The Mosaic Law
The Political Use of the Law and the Two Kingdoms
The Standards for Participation in the Political Use of the Law
Conclusion
5 Building a Christological Legal Foundation: A Comparative Political Theology after Karl Barth
A Qur'ānic Prelude
The Problem of Barth on Islam and Politics
Engaging Karl Barth's Political Theology
Gospel and Law
A Jewish-Christian Interlude
Rechtfertigung und Recht
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 12, 2020).
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Print version: Ralston, Joshua. Law and the rule of God
ISBN:
9781108779494
1108779492
9781108805032
1108805035
Publisher Number:
40030191427
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