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Many women of faith are interested in having deep conversations
with their friends and families about issues they face in their
personal lives. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of feminist and
theologically progressive materials for these women to turn to for
counsel or advice. Simultaneously, there are a growing number of
theologically trained biblical scholars, theologians, and ministers
who are experiencing similar life challenges, but who are generally
discouraged from writing about these experiences in ways that would
be accessible to the general public. This book bridges the chasm
between Christian laywomen and feminist theologians. For the last
fifty years, feminist theologians have sought to reimagine
Christian theology in ways that speak to the realities and
complexities of women's lives. They have also sought to use women's
experience as the starting point for theological reflection in the
same way that men's lives have shaped the history of Christian
theology for the past 2000 years. In this book, feminist Christian
scholars of theology and religion use the tools of their trade to
examine powerful personal life experiences and to search for new
and empowering ways of understanding the power of the sacred as
they have experienced it.
In a time of climate change, environmental degradation, and social
injustice, the question of the value and purpose of human life has
become urgent. What are the grounds for hope in a wounded world?
This Sacred Life gives a deep philosophical and religious
articulation of humanity's identity and vocation by rooting people
in a symbiotic, meshwork world that is saturated with sacred gifts.
The benefits of artificial intelligence and genetic enhancement
notwithstanding, Norman Wirzba shows how an account of humans as
interdependent and vulnerable creatures orients people to be a
creative, healing presence in a world punctuated by wounds. He
argues that the commodification of places and creatures needs to be
resisted so that all life can be cherished and celebrated.
Humanity's fundamental vocation is to bear witness to God's love
for creaturely life, and to commit to the construction of a
hospitable and beautiful world.
This multidisciplinary volume unites research on diverse aspects of
Jewish-Muslim relations, exchanges and coexistence across time
including the Abrahamic tradition enigma, Jews in the Qur'an and
Hadith, Ibn al-'Arabi and the Kabala, comparative feminist
theology, Jews, Christians, Muslims and the Gospel of Barnabas,
harmonizing religion and philosophy in Andalusia, Jews and Muslims
in medieval Christian Spain, Israeli Jews and Muslim and Christian
Arabs, Jewish-Muslim coexistence on Cyprus, Muslim-Jewish dialogues
in Berlin and Barcelona, Jewish-Christian-Muslim trialogues and
teleology, Jewish and Muslim dietary laws, and Jewish and Muslim
integration in Switzerland and Germany.
This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the
concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things. The author
moves beyond the dominant model of Islamic governance advanced by
modern day Islamists. The political philosophy of Ihsan privileges
process over structure, deeds over identity, love over law and
mercy and forgiveness over retribution. The work invites Muslims to
move away from thinking about the form of Islamic government and to
strive to create a self-critical society that defends national
virtue and generates institutions and practices that provide good
governance.
In the face of globalized ecological and economic crises, how do
religion, the postsecular, and political theology reconfigure
political theory and practice? As the planet warms and the chasm
widens between the 1 percent and the global 99, what thinking may
yet energize new alliances between religious and irreligious
constituencies? This book brings together political theorists,
philosophers, theologians, and scholars of religion to open
discursive and material spaces in which to shape a vibrant
planetary commons. Attentive to the universalizing tendencies of
"the common," the contributors seek to reappropriate the term in
response to the corporate logic that asserts itself as a universal
solvent. In the resulting conversation, the common returns as an
interlinked manifold, under the ethos of its multitudes and the
ecology of its multiplicity. Beginning from what William Connolly
calls the palpable "fragility of things," Common Goods assembles a
transdisciplinary political theology of the Earth. With a nuance
missing from both atheist and orthodox religious approaches, the
contributors engage in a multivocal conversation about sovereignty,
capital, ecology, and civil society. The result is an unprecedented
thematic assemblage of cosmopolitics and religious diversity; of
utopian space and the time of insurrection; of Christian socialism,
radical democracy, and disability theory; of quantum entanglement
and planetarity; of theology fleshly and political.
Thinking in Translation posits the Hebrew Bible as the fulcrum of
the thought of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), underpinning a unique
synthesis between systematic thinking and biblical interpretation.
Addressing a lacuna in Rosenzweig scholarship, the book offers a
critical evaluation of his engagement with the Bible through a
comparative study of The Star of Redemption and his Bible
translation with Martin Buber. The book opens with Rosenzweig's
rejection of German Idealism and fascination with the sources of
Judaism. It then analyzes the unique hermeneutic approach he
developed to philosophy and scripture as a symbiosis of critique
and cross-fertilization, facilitated by translation. An analysis of
the Star exposes Rosenzweig's employment of translation in grafting
biblical verses unto the philosophical discussion. It is followed
by a reading that demonstrates how his Bible translation reflects
an attempt to re-valorize the Tanakh as a distinctively Jewish
scripture, over and against Christian appropriations. Thinking in
Translation recasts Rosenzweig's life's work as a project of
melding Judaism and modernity in an attempt to secure their
spiritual and intellectual survival.
This book explores the methodological foundation of Islamic thought
premised on the cardinal principle of Tawhid, meaning the Oneness
of God as the universal law. The consequential methodological
worldview arising from the monotheistic unity of knowledge is
explained as the theory of consilience, meaning unity of knowledge
as the primal ontological reality leading to its epistemological
and phenomenological essentials of reasoning and thereby
configuring reality. Masudul Alam Choudhury presents a
non-mathematical exposition of the theory and applications of
Meta-Science of Tawhid, and brings out the essential monotheistic
methodological worldview of science.
Found in Translation is at once a themed volume on the translation
of ancient Jewish texts and a Festschrift for Leonard J.
Greenspoon, the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor in Jewish
Civilization and professor of classical and Near Eastern studies
and of theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
Greenspoon has made significant contributions to the study of
Jewish biblical translations, particularly the ancient translation
of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, known as the Septuagint. This
volume comprises an internationally renowned group of scholars
presenting a wide range of original essays on Bible translation,
the influence of culture on biblical translation, Bible
translations' reciprocal influence on culture, and the translation
of various Jewish texts and collections, especially the Septuagint.
The volume editors have painstakingly planned Found in Translation
to have the broadest scope of any current work on Jewish biblical
translation to reflect Greenspoon's broad impact on the field
throughout an august career.
N’ilah, “the closing of the gates” is, in many ways, the most
anticipated worship service in the entire Jewish calendar. Coming
at the end of the 24-hour fast that characterizes Yom Kippur (The
Day of Atonement), it symbolizes the days of old when the gates of
the ancient Temple closed at last, and with them, the last chance
for prayers of atonement and reconciliation with God and with
others. Nowadays, the synagogue service that replaced the Temple
cult marks the occasion with heightened fervor: the only time all
year when the gates of the ark that houses the Torah scroll remain
open throughout the service; telltale melodies accompany the
occasion; a final blast of the shofar (the ram’s horn) symbolizes
the end of the fast and the new beginning that follows; special
prayers celebrate the human capacity to create a life that matters
beyond our own mortality -- and the presence of God who “reaches
out a hand” to invite us into the new Jewish year that
N’ilah’s final shofar blast inaugurates. All of this is the
topic for volume eight in “Prayers of Awe,” the series devoted
to exploring the depth of the Jewish High Holy Days. As with prior
volumes, this one too comes with introductory essays on the
history, theology, and deeper meaning behind the prayer experience.
It then assembles some 40 short and accessible essays designed to
unlock the mystery and depth of the occasion. Authors come from all
walks of life – clergy and laypeople, scholars and artists, men
and women across the generations – and from seven countries
(Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Israel, the UK and USA). What
music appreciation is to classical music, this series on prayer is
to Jewish worship. This volume, in particular, explores Judaism’s
timeless message of divine purpose and the ongoing search for
meaning in a world of human frailty but also promise.
This volume explores the 'Mimetic Theory' of the cultural theorist
Rene Girard and its applicability to Islamic thought and tradition.
Authors critically examine Girard's assertion about the connection
between group formation, religion, and 'scapegoating' violence.
These insights, Girard maintained, have their source in biblical
revelation. Are there parallels in other faith traditions,
especially Islam? To this end, Muslim scholars and scholars of
Mimetic Theory have examined the hypothesis of an 'Abrahamic
Revolution.' This is the claim that Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam each share in a spiritual and ethical historical
'breakthrough:' a move away from scapegoating violence, and towards
a sense of justice for the innocent victim.
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