Judaism, Christianity, and Islam : the classical texts and their interpretation / F. E. Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, F. E. (Francis E.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism.

Christianity.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1990]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related--and competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these "children of Abraham." Through these extensive passages, and the author's skillful connective commentary, the three traditions are shown with their similarities sometimes startlingly underlined and their well-known differences now more profoundly exposed. What emerges from this unique and ambitious work is a panorama of belief, practice, and sensibility that will broaden our understanding of our religious and political roots in a past that is, by these communities' definition, still the present. The hardcover edition of the work is bound in one volume, and in the paperback version the identical material is broken down into three smaller but self-contained books. The first, "From Covenant to Community," includes texts and comments on the covenant and early history of the Chosen People and their post-Exilic reconstruction; the career and message of the Messiah Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad; the concept of holiness and of a "kingdom of priests"; and, finally, the notions of church and state and the state as a church. Throughout the work we hear an amazing variety of voices, some familiar, some not, all of them central to the primary and secondary canons of their own tradition: alongside the Scriptural voice of God are the words of theologians, priests, visionaries, lawyers, rulers and the ruled. The work ends, as does the same author's now classic Children of Abraham, in what Peters calls the "classical period," that is, before the great movements of modernism and reform that were to transform Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Brief Chronology

Introduction

1. The Covenant and the History of the Chosen People

2. From Israelite to Jew: The Post-Exilic Reconstruction

3. The Good News of Jesus Christ

4. Muhammad, the Prophet of God

5. "A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation"

6. Priests, Princes, and Overseers

7. The Church and the State/ The Church as the State

Short Titles

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691226828

0691226822

OCLC:

1312726083