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Crisis, call, and leadership in the Abrahamic traditions / edited by Peter Ochs and Stacy Johnson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: ix, 277 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0230618251 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201.5 22
LOC classification:
  • BR127 .C74 2009
Contents:
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.
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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.