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Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

ix, 277 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Abrahamic religions
Christianity and other religions
Religions--Relations
Abraham--(Biblical patriarch)
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Ochs, Peter, 1950-
Johnson, William Stacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Introduction: Crisis and the call to leadership in the Abrahamic traditions / William Stacy Johnson and Peter Ochs -- Pt. I. Communal identity and the other. Introduction: The other within and the other without / William Stacy Johnson -- The sign of Jonah : a Christian perspective on the relation of the Abrahamic faiths / R. Kendall Soulen -- Hagar and Esau : from others to sisters and brothers / 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 A. Signer -- Three voices, one response : here I am : a reformed Christian perspective on Abraham's dilemma / William Stacy Johnson -- Pt. II. Spirituality and social responsibility : poverty and charity. Introduction: The cry of the poor / Kevin L. Hughes -- The poor are always with you / Kevin L. Hughes -- Hearing the cry of the poor / Aryeh Cohen -- The tests of poverty : Qu'ranic perspectives / Timothy J. Gianotti -- In the bosom of Abraham : Saint Bonaventure, Lazarus, and the houses of hospitality / Ann W. 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. III. Abrahamic traditions and modernity. Introduction: The Scriptural traditions and modernity : the unhappy relations between traditions and modern historical consciousness / 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 postcritical readings of Scripture / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander -- Moses and the mountain of knowledge / Robert W. Jenson -- Moses in the sea : reading Scripture as liturgical performance / Peter Ochs -- Transfigured exegesis / C. Clifton Black.

ISBN:

9780230618251 (alk. paper)
0230618251 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)308174443

LCCN:

2009014133

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)