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Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions

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  1. Peter Ochs
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Crisis and the Call to Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions

    1. Introduction: Crisis and the Call to Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions

      • William Stacy Johnson, Peter Ochs
      Pages 1-8

  4. Spirituality and Social Responsibility: Poverty and Charity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. The Poor Are Always with You

      • Kevin L. Hughes
      Pages 93-107

    3. Hearing the Cry of the Poor

      • Aryeh Cohen
      Pages 109-121

    4. The Tests of Poverty: Qur’anic Perspectives

      • Timothy J. Gianotti
      Pages 123-138

    5. In the Bosom of Abraham: Saint Bonaventure, Lazarus, and the Houses of Hospitality

      • Ann W. Astell
      Pages 139-152

    6. Charity and the Good Life: On Islamic Prophetic Ethics

      • Mohammad Azadpur
      Pages 153-167

    7. Lawe, loue, and lewete: The Kenotic Vision of Traditional Christian Political Theology

      • R R Reno
      Pages 169-183

  5. Abrahamic Traditions and Modernity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Human Contention and Divine Argument: Faith and Truth in the Qur’anic Story of Abraham

      • Maria Massi Dakake
      Pages 191-207

    3. Abraham in the Image of Job: A Model for Postcritical Readings of Scripture

      • Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
      Pages 209-221

    4. Moses and the Mountain of Knowledge

      • Robert W. Jenson
      Pages 223-230

    5. Moses in the Sea: Reading Scripture as Liturgical Performance

      • Peter Ochs
      Pages 231-242
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About this book

Sixteen Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars sought to answer one question: 'Do our three scriptures unite or divide us?' Each essay examines scriptural sources as read in the classical and medieval traditions, addressing issues including how each tradition addresses the 'other' within its tradition and without, and the challenges of modernity.

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"The incredible strength of the volume becomes clear with a close read of introductions and these selections from the essays offered: few volumes today offer the depth of personal reflection, from such markedly different scholarly voices and traditions, across such a breadth of scholarly interests. Crisis, Call, and Leadership is a pleasure to browse and to study." - Lisa M. Hess, United Theological Seminary (OH)

'Scriptural reasoning, the growing practice of Jews, Christians, and Muslims reading their scriptures together, makes good academic and common sense in a time of crisis. This ground-breaking book, the outcome of an imaginative 3-year experiment by the Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry, shows scholars and thinkers of the Abrahamic traditions going deeper into the traditions and into their contemporary situation. The result is something new, wise, and relevant full of promise for the future. Where else can one find testimonies to Jews, Christians, and Muslims coming together not only in study, thinking, and wisdom-seeking but also in play, joy, and friendship?' - David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge and Director, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme

About the authors

PETER OCHS is the Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia, Virginia, USA. 
WILLIAM STACEY JOHNSON is the Arthur M. Adams Chair of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions

  • Editors: Peter Ochs, William Stacy Johnson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101357

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61825-1Published: 18 December 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38097-8Published: 18 December 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10135-7Published: 09 November 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 277

  • Topics: Comparative Religion, Christian Theology, Biblical Studies

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