Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions

Sixteen Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars sought to answer one question: 'Do our three scriptures unite or divide us?' Each essay examines scriptural sources as read in the classical and medieval traditions, addressing issues including how each tradition addresses the 'other' within its tradition and without, and the challenges of modernity.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; S.Johnson & P.Ochs PART I: COMMUNAL IDENTITY AND THE OTHER Introduction; S.Johnson The Sign of Jonah, A Christian Perspective on the Relation of the Abrahamic Faiths; K.Soulen Islam as our Other, Islam as Ourselves; S.Kepnes Qur'an and the Image of the 'Other,' The Good, the Bad, the Ugly; M.Aminrazavi 'These are the Generations,' Reasoning with Rabbi Samuel ben Meier; M.Signer The Sacredness of the Other, Abraham's Sacrifice as Test, Protest, and Testament; S.Johnson PART II: SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: POVERTY AND CHARITY Introduction; K.Hughes The Poor Are Always With You; K.Hughes Hearing the Cry of the Poor; A.Cohen The Tests of Poverty; T.Gianotti In the Bosom of Abraham, Saint Bonaventure, Lazarus, and the Houses of Hospitality; A.Astell Charity and the Good Life, On Islamic Prophetic Ethics; M.Azadpur Lawe, loue and lewete, The Kenotic Vision of Traditional Christian Political Theology; R.R.Reno PART III: ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS AND MODERNITY Introduction; M.M.Dakake Human Contention and Divine Argument, Faith and Truth in the Qur'anic Story of Abraham; M.M.Dakake Abraham in the Image of Job, A Model for Post-Modern Readings of Scripture; E.Alexander Moses and the Mountain of Knowledge; R.Jenson Moses in the Sea, Reading Scripture as Liturgical Performance; P.Ochs Transfigured Exegesis; C.Black

About the Author :
PETER OCHS is the Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia, Virginia, USA.  WILLIAM STACEY JOHNSON is the Arthur M. Adams Chair of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA.

Review :
"The incredible strength of the volume becomes clear with a close read of introductions and these selections from the essays offered: few volumes today offer the depth of personal reflection, from such markedly different scholarly voices and traditions, across such a breadth of scholarly interests. Crisis, Call, and Leadership is a pleasure to browse and to study." - Lisa M. Hess, United Theological Seminary (OH) 'Scriptural reasoning, the growing practice of Jews, Christians, and Muslims reading their scriptures together, makes good academic and common sense in a time of crisis. This ground-breaking book, the outcome of an imaginative 3-year experiment by the Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry, shows scholars and thinkers of the Abrahamic traditions going deeper into the traditions and into their contemporary situation. The result is something new, wise, and relevant full of promise for the future. Where else can one find testimonies to Jews, Christians, and Muslims coming together not only in study, thinking, and wisdom-seeking but also in play, joy, and friendship?' - David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge and Director, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme