Humanity before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics

Humanity before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics

ISBN-10:
0800638220
ISBN-13:
9780800638221
Pub. Date:
04/17/2006
Publisher:
1517 Media
ISBN-10:
0800638220
ISBN-13:
9780800638221
Pub. Date:
04/17/2006
Publisher:
1517 Media
Humanity before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics

Humanity before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics

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Overview

Does religious extremism represent an inevitable consequence of firmly held beliefs in life-and-death situations? Is there a way out?

Gathering ethicists and scholars from the three major and often conflicting monotheistic traditions, each was asked to correlate a religious tradition's sacred texts and tradition with the contemporary world's pluralism and claims about the inalienable sanctity and dignity of human life. The result is that the reader sees "human life before God" in new and profound ways.

Contributors include:

Hilary Putnam

Abdulaziz Sachedina

Lisa Sowle Cahill

Michael Fishbane

William Schweiker

Tikva Frymer-Kensky

Michael A. Johnson

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Kevin Jung

Lawrence Vogel

Azizah al-Hibri

David Little

Kohn Kelsay

Seyyed Hossein Nasr


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780800638221
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 04/17/2006
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Michael Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago.


Kevin Jung recently received his doctorate in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago and is Spruill Fellow at Emory University.


William Schweiker is Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Contributors

IntroductionPART ONE: THE DISTINCTIVENESS OF HUMAN BEING

Monotheism and Humanism, Hilary Putnam

Human Vicegerency: A Blessing or a Curse?

The Challenge to Be God's Caliph in the Qur'an, Abdulaziz Sachedina

Embodying God's Image: Created, Broken, and Redeemed, Lisa Sowle Cahill

The Image of God and the Human Ideal: Reflections from the Varieties of Judaism, Michael Fishbane

Distinctive Love: Gratitude for Life and Theological Humanism, William Schweiker

The Image, the Glory, and the Holy: Aspects of Being Human in Biblical Thought, Tikva Frymer-Kensky

Creation and Initiative: A Reading of Ricoeur's Ethics of Originary Affirmation, Michael A. Johnson

PART TWO: HUMANITY IN CREATION

The Humanistic Ethic: Jewish Reflections, Paul Mendes-Flohr

Common Morality, Premoral Goods, and Religion, Kevin Jung

Natural-Law Judaism? The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass, Lawrence Vogel

Divine Justice and the Human Order: An Islamic Perspective, Azizah Y. al-Hibri

Religion, Human Rights, and Secularism: Preliminary Clarifications and Some Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Responses, David Little

Armed Force and Political Responsibility: Justification and Resort to War in Abrahamic Traditions, John Kelsay

Standing before God: Human Responsibilities and Human Rights, Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Index of Names and Subjects

Index of Scriptural References

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