Crisis, call, and leadership in the Abrahamic traditions
By: edited by Peter Ochs and Stacy Johnson.
Contributors: Ochs, Peter, 1950-; Johnson, William Stacy.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Abraham -- (Biblical patriarch); Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Abrahamic religions; Christianity and other religions; Religions -- Relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Stacy Johnson and Peter Ochs; title: Pt. 1. Communal identity and the other; title: Introduction / Stacy Johnson; title: The sign of Jonah, a Christian perspective on the relation of the Abrahamic faiths / Kendall Soulen; title: Islam as our other, Islam as ourselves / Steven Kepnes; title: Qur'an and the image of the "other," the good, the bad, the ugly / Mehdi Aminrazavi; title: "These are the generations," reasoning with Rabbi Samuel Ben Meier / Michael Signer; title: Three voices, one response : here I am / Stacy Johnson; title: Pt. 2. Spirituality and social responsibility : poverty and charity; title: Introduction / Kevin Hughes; title: The poor are always with you / Kevin Hughes; title: Hearing the cry of the poor / Aryeh Cohen; title: The tests of poverty / Timothy Gianotti; title: In the bosom of Abraham, Saint Bonaventure, Lazarus, and the houses of hospitality / Ann Astell; title: Charity and the good life, on Islamic prophetic ethics / Mohammed Azadpur; title: Lawe, Loue, and Lewete, the Kenotic vision of traditional Christian political theology / R.R. Reno; title: Pt. 3. Abrahamic traditions and modernity; title: Introduction / Maria Masi Dakake; title: Human contention and divine argument, faith and truth in the Qur'anic story of Abraham / Maria Masi Dakake; title: Abraham in the image of Job : a model for post-modern readings of Scripture / Elizabeth alexander; title: Moses and the mountain of knowledge / Robert Jenson; title: Moses in the sea, reading Scripture as liturgical performance / Peter Ochs; title: Transfigured exegesis / Clifton Black.