Screen LibraryTowards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim theology
"Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology delineates the ways that Christianity, Islam, and the Jewish tradition have moved towards each another over the centuries and points to new pathways for contemporary theological work. Explores the development of the three Abrahamic traditions, brillia...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Challenges in contemporary theology
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444395808 |
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"Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology delineates the ways that Christianity, Islam, and the Jewish tradition have moved towards each another over the centuries and points to new pathways for contemporary theological work. Explores the development of the three Abrahamic traditions, brilliantly showing the way in which they have struggled with similar issues over the centuries. Shows how the approach of each tradition can be used comparatively by the other traditions to illuminate and develop their own thinking. Written by a renowned writer in philosophical theology, widely acclaimed for "Religious debate among Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scholars has acquired urgent new dimensions in recent years. Yet over the course of 1400 years, what have the Abrahamic traditions really learned from each other? Brilliantly demonstrating the ways that Christianity, Islam, and the Judaism have struggled with similarly intractable issues over the centuries, Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology offers insightful new pathways for productive theological work, along with deep insights into the topic of faith itself. Burrell uses exercises in 'creative hermeneutics' to show how each tra |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781444395808 (electronic bk.) 1444395807 (electronic bk.) 9781444395785 (electronic bk.) 1444395785 (electronic bk.) 1283408317 9781283408318 |
| Index Number: | BL410 |
| CLC: | B920 |
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Front Matter -- Introduction -- Free Creation as a Shared Task for Jews, Christians, Muslims -- Relating Divine Freedom with Human Freedom: Diverging and Converging Strategies -- Human Initiative and Divine Grace: Augustine and Ghazali -- Trust in Divine Providence:, ₃Abandonment, ₄ and ₃Detachment₄ -- The Point of it all: ₃Return, ₄ Judgment, and ₃Second Coming₄ ₆ Creation to Consummation -- Realized Eschatology: Faith as a Mode of knowing and Journeying -- Respectfully Negotiating outstanding Neuralgic issues: Contradictions and Conversions -- Epilog: Misuses and Abuses o Machine generated contents note: Preface: Road to this Inquiry: from Marcel Dubois to Anawati/Gardet, and Vatican II to current exchanges. -- Introduction. -- 1. Free creation as a shared task for Jews, Christians, Muslims. -- 2. Relating divine freedom and human freedom: diverging and converging strategies. -- 3. Human initiative and divine grace: Augustine and Ghazali. -- 4. Trust in divine providence: al-Ghazali, deCaussade, and Maimonides. -- 5. The point of it all: creation to consummation, 'return', judgment, and 'second coming', with John of the Cross and Edith Stein, Ibn Arabi and Me |