Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a rich collection of essays, scriptural texts, and personal reflections, drawn from the 2011 Building Bridges seminar in Doha, Qatar, that features leading scholars analyzing the meaning and function of prayer within their traditions.
By setting traditions and thinkers such as Zoroaster, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Gautama Buddha, Confucius, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle side by side, we are able to see more clearly the questions with which they struggled, their similarities and differences, and how their ideas have influenced religious thought down to our day.
Focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. This volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.
The study of comparative religious ethics is at a critical juncture, given the growing awareness of non-Christian ethical beliefs and practices and their bearing on social change. Christine Gudorf is at the forefront of rendering comparativeand competingreligious beliefs meaningful for students, especially in the area of ethics. Unlike other ......
This extensive 3-panel study guide presents the details of the wide variety of Christianities that exist in the world today. From Methodism to Roman Catholicism, Greek Orthodox to Mormonism, Christianity has changed from being a tiny sect in ancient Rome to the largest religion in the world. A must-have for any scholar interested in learning more ......
Revelation, Translation, and Interpretation in Christianity and Islam
A collection of essays that focuses on key scriptural texts and engage with both classical and contemporary Islamic and Christian thought. It addresses issues such as: the different ways in which Christians and Muslims think of their scriptures as the Word of God, the possibilities and challenges of translating scripture, and more.
Explores three central questions: What does it mean to be human? What is the significance of the diversity that is evident among human beings? And what are the challenges that humans face living within the natural world? In this title, a distinguished group of scholars focuses on the theological responses to each of these questions.
Chinese gods: Who are they? Where did they come from? What do they do? Chinese folk religion is the underlying belief system of more than a billion Chinese people. Go into any Chinese home, office or restaurant and you will see altars, statues or paper 'good luck' images. And wherever there is a Chinese community there are temples and Earth God ......
Ibn 'Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Mystical Hermeneutics
What is 'mysticism' and, most importantly, how do the great mystical writers understand it? ""Logos and Revelation"" seeks to answer this question by looking closely at the writings of two of the most prominent medieval mystical writers: the Muslim, Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) and the Christian, Meister Eckhart (1260-1328). Through his careful ......
