Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic

Over three years of study and fellowship, sixteen Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars sought to answer one question: "Do our three scriptures unite or divide us?" They offer their answers in this book: sixteen essays on how certain ways of reading scripture may draw us apart and other ways may draw us, together, into the source that each tradition calls peace. Reading scriptural sources in the classical and medieval traditions, the authors examine how each tradition addresses the "other" within its tradition and without, how all three traditions attend to poverty as a societal and spiritual condition, and what it means to read scripture while facing the challenges of modernity. Ochs and Johnson have assembled a unique approach to inter-religious scholarship and a rare look at scriptural study as a pathway to peace.

Peter Ochs is Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia. He co-founded and co-directs the Society for Textual Reasoning (studies in Jewish textualities and philosophy) and the Society for Scriptural Reasoning (fellowships of inter-Abrahamic scriptural study and interpretation). Among his books are Another Reformation: Postliberal Christianity and the Jews; Peirce, Pragmatism and the Logic of Scripture; Textual Reasonings (co-edited with Nancy Levene); and Renewing the Covenant (with Eugene Borowitz).

William Stacy Johnson is Arthur M. Adams Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. An ordained Presbyterian minister and a lawyer, he earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University, his J.D. from Wake Forest University, and his M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia. A frequent speaker in churches, he served for four years as theologian-in-residence of Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, and was the first theologian-in-residence at the First Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas. For five years he worked as a member of the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Theological Task Force on the Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church. He has also served as cochair of a Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural reasoning group located at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. His teaching and writing focus on constructive theological reflection amid the challenges of a postmodern, post-September 11 world.

Introduction: Crisis and the Call to Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions	p. 1
Communal Identity and the Other Introduction: The Other Within and the Other Without	p. 11
The Sign of Jonah: A Christian Perspective on the Relation of the Abrahamic Faiths	p. 15
Hagar and Esau: From Others to Sisters and Brothers	p. 31
Qur'an and the Image of the "Other": The Good, the Bad, the Ugly	p. 47
"These Are the Generations": Reasoning with Rabbi Samuel ben Meier	p. 59
Three Voices, One Response: Here I Am: A Reformed Christian Perspective on Abraham's Dilemma	p. 71
Spirituality and Social Responsibility: Poverty and Charity Introduction: The Cry of the Poor	p. 89
The Poor Are Always with You	p. 93
Hearing the Cry of the Poor	p. 109
The Tests of Poverty: Qur'anic Perspectives	p. 123
In the Bosom of Abraham: Saint Bonaventure, Lazarus, and the Houses of Hospitality	p. 139
Charity and the Good Life: On Islamic Prophetic Ethics	p. 153
Laive, loue, and lewete: The Kenotic Vision of Traditional Christian Political Theology	p. 169
Abrahamic Traditions and Modernity Introduction: The Scriptural Traditions and Modernity: The Unhappy Relations between Traditions and Modern Historical Consciousness	p. 187
Human Contention and Divine Argument: Faith and Truth in the Qur'anic Story of Abraham	p. 191
Abraham in the Image of Job: A Model for Postcritical Readings of Scripture	p. 209
Moses and the Mountain of Knowledge	p. 223
Moses in the Sea: Reading Scripture as Liturgical Performance	p. 231
Transfigured Exegesis	p. 243
Contributors	p. 259
Index of Scriptural Sources and Commentaries	p. 263
Index of Modern Authors	p. 271
Subject Index	p. 273
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