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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology
In our age of globalisation and pandemic, how should we react to
the new Islamophobic movements now spreading in the West?
Everywhere the far right is on the march, with nationalist and
populist parties thriving on the back of popular anxieties about
Islam and the Muslim presence. Hijab and minaret bans, mosque
shootings, hostility to migrants and increasingly scornful media
stereotypes seem to endanger the prospects for friendly coexistence
and the calm uplifting of Muslim populations. In this series of
essays Abdal Hakim Murad dissects the rise of Islamophobia on the
basis of Muslim theological tradition. Although the proper response
to the current impasse is clearly indicated in Qur'an and Hadith,
some have lost the principle of trust in divine wisdom and are
responding with hatred, fearfulness or despair. Murad shows that a
compassion-based approach, rooted in an authentic theology of
divine power, could transform the current quagmire into a bright
landscape of great promise for Muslims and their neighbours.
Offering a decisive challenge to the older reception of Pusey as a
paragon of backwards scholarship, Tobias A. Karlowicz argues that
Pusey is properly understood as a penetrating and original
theologian whose work anticipated contemporary conversations about
the nature of theology, and a pivotal figure in the history of
Anglican theology. Karlowicz locates the heart of Pusey's project
in a theological perception which looks through the physicality and
concreteness of language, to discern Christ at the centre of both
Scripture and the physical creation. This 'sacramental vision,'
which grew from Pusey's critique of Christianity's decay and his
formative engagement with patristic hermeneutics and ontology,
forms his teaching on the sacraments as vehicles for a Christian
life of eucharistic self-oblation in union with Christ, and
demonstrates the relevance of his thought to contemporary theology.
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