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Monotheism and Its Complexities

Author : Lucinda Mosher
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626165858
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Monotheism and Its Complexities written by Lucinda Mosher and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom would have it that believing in one God is straightforward; that Muslims are expert at monotheism, but that Christians complicate it, weaken it, or perhaps even abandon it altogether by speaking of the Trinity. In this book, Muslim and Christian scholars challenge that opinion. Examining together scripture texts and theological reflections from both traditions, they show that the oneness of God is taken as axiomatic in both, and also that affirming God's unity has raised complex theological questions for both. The two faiths are not identical, but what divides them is not the number of gods they believe in. The latest volume of proceedings of The Building Bridges Seminar—a gathering of scholar-practitioners of Islam and Christianity that meets annually for the purpose of deep study of scripture and other texts carefully selected for their pertinence to the year’s chosen theme—this book begins with a retrospective on the seminar’s first fifteen years and concludes with an account of deliberations and discussions among participants, thereby providing insight into the model of vigorous and respectful dialogue that characterizes this initiative. Contributors include Richard Bauckham, Sidney Griffith, Christoph Schwöbel, Janet Soskice, Asma Afsaruddin, Maria Dakake, Martin Nguyen, and Sajjad Rizvi. To encourage further dialogical study, the volume includes those scripture passages and other texts on which their essays comment. A unique resource for scholars, students, and professors of Christianity and Islam.

Monotheism and Its Complexities

Author : Lucinda Mosher
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 162616584X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Monotheism and Its Complexities written by Lucinda Mosher and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom would have it that believing in one God is straightforward; that Muslims are expert at monotheism, but that Christians complicate it, weaken it, or perhaps even abandon it altogether by speaking of the Trinity. In this book, Muslim and Christian scholars challenge that opinion. Examining together scripture texts and theological reflections from both traditions, they show that the oneness of God is taken as axiomatic in both, and also that affirming God's unity has raised complex theological questions for both. The two faiths are not identical, but what divides them is not the number of gods they believe in. The latest volume of proceedings of The Building Bridges Seminar—a gathering of scholar-practitioners of Islam and Christianity that meets annually for the purpose of deep study of scripture and other texts carefully selected for their pertinence to the year’s chosen theme—this book begins with a retrospective on the seminar’s first fifteen years and concludes with an account of deliberations and discussions among participants, thereby providing insight into the model of vigorous and respectful dialogue that characterizes this initiative. Contributors include Richard Bauckham, Sidney Griffith, Christoph Schwöbel, Janet Soskice, Asma Afsaruddin, Maria Dakake, Martin Nguyen, and Sajjad Rizvi. To encourage further dialogical study, the volume includes those scripture passages and other texts on which their essays comment. A unique resource for scholars, students, and professors of Christianity and Islam.

A Million and One Gods

Author : Page duBois
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728831
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book A Million and One Gods written by Page duBois and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As A Million and One Gods shows, polytheism is considered a scandalous presence in societies oriented to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Yet it persists, even in the West, perhaps because polytheism corresponds to unconscious needs and deeply held values of tolerance, diversity, and equality that are central to civilized societies.

The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume I

Author : F. E. Peters
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691123721
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume I written by F. E. Peters and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions--seeks not so much to demonstrate the truth of this thesis as to illustrate it. Frank Peters, one of the world's foremost experts on the monotheistic faiths, takes Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and after briefly tracing the roots of each, places them side by side to show both their similarities and their differences. Volume I, The Peoples of God, tells the story of the foundation and formation of the three monotheistic communities, of their visible, historical presence. Volume II, The Words and Will of God, is devoted to their inner life, the spirit that animates and regulates them. Peters takes us to where these religions live: their scriptures, laws, institutions, and intentions; how each seeks to worship God and achieve salvation; and how they deal with their own (orthodox and heterodox) and with others (the goyim, the pagans, the infidels). Throughout, he measures--but never judges--one religion against the other. The prose is supple, the method rigorous. This is a remarkably cohesive, informative, and accessible narrative reflecting a lifetime of study by a single recognized authority in all three fields. The Monotheists is a magisterial comparison, for students and general readers as well as scholars, of the parties to one of the most troubling issues of today--the fierce, sometimes productive and often destructive, competition among the world's monotheists, the siblings called Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

From Akhenaten to Moses

Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774166310
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book From Akhenaten to Moses written by Jan Assmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order to enter the new one. The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to the other, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers' theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.

Contemporary Christian-Muslim Dialogue

Author : Douglas Pratt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317160894
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Christian-Muslim Dialogue written by Douglas Pratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces and examines the work of two significant 21st century Christian – Muslim dialogue initiatives – "Building Bridges" and the "Christian–Muslim Theological Forum" – and gives close attention to five theological themes that have been addressed in common by them. An overview and analysis, including inception, development, outputs and significance, together with discussion of the select themes – community, scripture, prophecy, prayer and ethics – allows for an in-depth examination of significant contemporary Muslim and Christian scholarship on issues important to both faith communities. The result is a challenging encounter to, arguably, a widespread default presumption of irredeemable mutual hostility and inevitable mutual rejection with instances of violent extremism as a consequence. Demonstrating the reality that deep interreligious engagement is possible between the two faiths today, this book should appeal to a wide readership, including upper undergraduate and graduate teaching as well as professionals and practitioners in the field of Christian-Muslim relations.

The Only True God

Author : James F. McGrath
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091892
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Only True God written by James F. McGrath and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monotheism is a powerful religious concept shaped by competing ideas and the problems they raised. Surveying New Testament writings and Jewish sources from before and after the rise of Christianity, James F. McGrath argues that even the most developed Christologies in the New Testament fit within the context of first century Jewish monotheism. McGrath pinpoints when the parting of ways took place over the issue of God's oneness, and explores philosophical ideas such as "creation out of nothing" which caused Jews and Christians to develop differing concepts and definitions about God.

The Attributes of God in Islamic Thought

Author : Mansooreh Khalilizand
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003852785
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Attributes of God in Islamic Thought written by Mansooreh Khalilizand and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over Allah’s attribute—the “nature” and the inner articulation of Allah—is one of the focal debates in the intellectual history of Islam. This edited collection aims to highlight and examine some aspects of this debate in their original context, based on the relevant primary literature. By showing that even an apparently self-evident concept such as Allah, which lies at the heart of every reading of Islam, is highly ambiguous and polysemous, the chapters also emphasise the plurality that has always existed in Islamic thought. Through highlighting the philosophical and theological reflections on the concept of Allah, the results of this study challenge the juristic reading of Islam, in which Allah’s function consists mainly in providing a detailed plan for the human life and also rewarding or punishing the ones who deviates from it. The book also attempts to demonstrate the relevance and the actuality of the tradition and to stress its contemporaneity. This volume makes a significant part of the intellectual tradition of Islam accessible for students and scholars of Islamic theology, Islamic philosophy, Islamic studies and the like, as well as providing a secondary source for teaching on the debate in question.

Monotheism and Faith in God

Author : Ian G. Wallis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108988075
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Monotheism and Faith in God written by Ian G. Wallis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After offering a brief overview of the role of faith within Judaism, Christianity and Islam, an interdisciplinary analysis of faith, belief, belief systems and the act of believing is undertaken. The debate over the nature of doctrine between George Lindbeck and Alister McGrath brings into focus four ways in which beliefs can be employed: expressive, interpretative, formative and referential/relational. An analysis of monotheistic belief ensues which demonstrates how it can function meaningfully in each of these modes, including the last, where insights from phenomenology and relational ontology, as well as philosophical theology, favour a participatory approach in which God is encountered not as an object of investigation, but as that transcendent Other whose worship is the fulfilment of human being. The study concludes by highlighting convergences between the nature of faith presented in the initial scriptural overview and that developed throughout the rest of the study.

Monotheism and the Rise of Science

Author : J. L. Schellenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108899633
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Monotheism and the Rise of Science written by J. L. Schellenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element traces the effects of science's rise on the cultural status of monotheism. Starting in the past, it shows how monotheism contributed to science's rise, and how, returning the favour, science provided aid and support, until fairly recently, for the continuing success of monotheism in the west. Turning to the present, the Element explores reasons for supposing that explanatorily, and even on an existential level, science is taking over monotheism's traditional roles in western culture. These reasons are found to be less powerful than is commonly supposed, though the existential challenge can be made effective when framed in an unusual and indirect manner. Finally, the Element considers how the relationship between science's high standing and the status of monotheism might appear in the future. Could something like monotheism rise again, and might science help it do so? The Element concludes that an affirmative answer is possible.

The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies

Author : Lucinda Mosher
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1647121647
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies written by Lucinda Mosher and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies provides fifty thought-provoking chapters on the field’s unique history, priorities, challenges, pedagogies, and practical applications, written by an international roster of experts and practitioners across religious traditions. This will serve as a valuable reference to students in the field.

The Boundaries of Monotheism

Author : Anne-Marie Korte
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004173161
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Boundaries of Monotheism written by Anne-Marie Korte and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the significance of monotheism in modern western culture, taking into account both its problematic and promising aspects? Biblical texts and the biblical faith traditions bear a continuous, polemical tension between exclusive and inclusive perceptions and interpretations of monotheism. Western monotheism proves itself to be multi-significant and heterogeneous, producing boundary-setting as well as boundary-crossing tendencies, is the common thesis of the authors of this book, who have been collectively debating this theme for two years in an interdisciplinary scholarly setting. Their contributions range from the fields of biblical and religious studies, history and philosophy of religion, systematic theology, to gender studies in theology and religion.The authors also explain the particular contribution of their own theological discipline to these debates.

Moses the Egyptian

Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020308
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Moses the Egyptian written by Jan Assmann and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses is at the foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture. Here the factual and fictional events and characters in religious beliefs are studied. It traces monotheism back to the Egyptian king Akhenaten and shows how Moses's followers established truth by denouncing all others as false.

Beyond Monotheism

Author : Laurel Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135947821
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Monotheism written by Laurel Schneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Monotheism is an absorbing and lyrical exploration of the possibility of a new, living theology of multiplicity that is grounded in fluidity, change and incarnation.

Christian Engagement with Islam

Author : Douglas Pratt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004344942
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Christian Engagement with Islam written by Douglas Pratt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christian Engagement with Islam: Ecumenical Journeys since 1910, Douglas Pratt discusses the work of the WCC and the Vatican, Africa’s PROCMURA, ‘Building Bridges’, and the German ‘Christian-Muslim Theological Forum’, together with responses to the ‘Common Word’ letter of 2007.

Monotheism & Ethics

Author : Y. Tzvi Langermann
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900421741X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Monotheism & Ethics written by Y. Tzvi Langermann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the world explore the theological, philosophical, and historical connections between the three Abrahamic faiths and ethics. Timely reading for students of religion, philosophy, and ethics.

Monotheism and the Meaning of Life

Author : T. J. Mawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108605559
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Monotheism and the Meaning of Life written by T. J. Mawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monotheism and The Meaning of Life explores the role of God, and the relationship to the question 'What is the meaning of life?' for adherents of the main monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Exploring the various senses of 'meaning' and 'life', Mawson argues that there are various questions implicit in the notion of the meaning of life and that the God of monotheistic religion is central to the correct answers to all of them.