Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions [electronic resource] /
Ochs, P.editor.
Johnson, W.editor.
Sixteen Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars sought to answer one question: 'Do our three scriptures unite or divide us?' Each essay examines scriptural sources as read in the classical and medieval traditions, addressing issues including how each tradition addresses the 'other' within its tradition and without, and the challenges of modernity.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Stacy Johnson and Peter Ochs -- Pt. 1. Communal identity and the other -- Introduction / Stacy Johnson -- The sign of Jonah, a Christian perspective on the relation of the Abrahamic faiths / Kendall Soulen -- Islam as our other, Islam as ourselves / 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 Signer -- Three voices, one response : here I am / Stacy Johnson -- Pt. 2. Spirituality and social responsibility : poverty and charity -- Introduction / Kevin Hughes -- The poor are always with you / Kevin Hughes -- Hearing the cry of the poor / Aryeh Cohen -- The tests of poverty / Timothy Gianotti -- In the bosom of Abraham, Saint Bonaventure, Lazarus, and the houses of hospitality / Ann 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. 3. Abrahamic traditions and modernity -- Introduction / 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 post-modern readings of Scripture / Elizabeth alexander -- Moses and the mountain of knowledge / Robert Jenson -- Moses in the sea, reading Scripture as liturgical performance / Peter Ochs -- Transfigured exegesis / Clifton Black.
Sixteen Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars sought to answer one question: 'Do our three scriptures unite or divide us?' Each essay examines scriptural sources as read in the classical and medieval traditions, addressing issues including how each tradition addresses the 'other' within its tradition and without, and the challenges of modernity.
Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
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