Monotheism and Its Complexities : Christian and Muslim Perspectives

• Pubblicazione: Georgetown University Press
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.27
• Soggetto topico: God; God (Islam); Monotheism
• Altri autori: MosherLucinda MarshallDavid <1963-> BauckhamRichard DakakeMaria AfsaruddinAsma NguyenMartin SchwobelChristoph RizviSajjad SoskiceJanet GriffithSidney
• Nota di contenuto: Preface: fifteen years of construction : a retrospective on the first decade and a half of the Building Bridges Seminar / Lucinda mosher -- Introduction -- The oneness of God in the Biblical witness -- Complexities surrounding God's oneness in Biblical monotheism / Richard Bauckham -- Bridging the chasm between the divine and the human : a Muslim response to Richard Bauckham / Maria Massi Dakake -- Text dialogue I : Bible passages for dialogue on the oneness of God -- The oneness of God in the Qurʼan and Ḥadīth -- Monotheism in Islam / Asma Afsaruddin -- The complexity of monotheism in Islam : a Christian response to Asma Afsaruddin / Sidney Griffith -- Text dialogue II: Qurʼan and Ḥadīth passages for dialogue on the oneness of God -- Grappling with the unity question in the elaboration of Christian doctrine -- The one and the three in Christian worship and doctrine : engaging with the question of divine unity in the elaboration of Christian doctrine / Christoph Schwöbel -- Of storytellers and storytelling : a Muslim response to Christoph Schwöbel / Martin Nguyen -- Text dialogue III: Christian thought -- Safeguarding tawḥīd in the elaboration of the Islamic tradition -- God is one but unlike any other : theological argumentation on tawḥīd in Islam / Sajjad Rizvi -- Christianity, trinity, and the one God : a response to Sajjad Rizvi / Janet Soskice -- Text dialogue IV : Islamic thought -- Reflections -- Dialogue in Northern Virginia : reflections on Building Bridges Seminar 2016 / Lucinda Mosher.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Monotheism and Its Complexities
• ISBN: 9781626165854; 1626165858
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954306303321
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