Humanity before God
Subtitle: contemporary faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ethics
By: edited by Michael A. Johnson, Kevin Jung, William Schweiker.
Contributors: Johnson, Michael A., 1963-; Jung, Kevin, 1970-; Schweiker, William.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Religious ethics -- Comparative studies.; Religions -- Comparative studies.
Genres: Comparative studies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Michael A. Johnson, Kevin Jung, and William Schweiker; title: Part I: The distinctiveness of human being; title: Monotheism and humanism / Hilary Putnam; title: Human vicegerency : a blessing or a curse : the challenge to be God's Caliph in the Qur'an / Abdulaziz Sachedina; title: Embodying God's image : created, broken, and redeemed / Lisa Sowle Cahill; title: The image of God and the human ideal : reflections from the varieties of Judaism / Michael Fishbane; title: Distinctive loves : gratitude for life and contemporary Christian humanism / William Schweiker; title: The image, the glory and the holy : images of being human in biblical thought / Tikva Frymer-Kensky; title: Creation and initiative : a reading of Paul Ricoeur's ethics of originary affirmation / Michael A. Johnson; title: Part II: Humanity in creation; title: Humanistic ethos : a Jewish reflection / Paul Mendes-Flohr; title: Common morality, premoral goods, and religion / Kevin Jung; title: Natural-law judaism? : the genesis of bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss and Leon Kass / Lawrence Vogel; title: Divine justice and the human order / Azizah al-Hibri; title: Religion, human rights, and secularism : preliminary clarifications and some Islamic, Jewish, and Christian responses / David Little; title: Armed force and political responsibility : justification and conduct of war in Abrahamic traditions / John Kelsay; title: Standing before God : human responsibilities and human rights / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.