Jesus and the Cross: Reflections of Christians from Islamic Contexts

by David Emmanuel Singh (Editor), Lamin Sanneh (Foreword by)

Overview

The Cross reminds us that the sins of the world are not borne through the exercise of power but through Jesus Christ’s submission to the will of the Father. The papers in this volume are organised in three parts: scriptural, contextual and theological. The central question being addressed is: how do Christians living in contexts, where Islam is a majority or minority religion, experience, express or think of the Cross?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908355737
Publisher:	Regnum Books International
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Series:	Regnum Studies in Global Christianity
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
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About the Author

David Emmanuel Singh is research tutor at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies in the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Lamin Sanneh     vii
Introduction   David Emmanuel Singh     1
The Cross in the Scriptures     5
Ecce, Agnus Dei: The Cross in The Old Testament   Jules Gomes     7
The Prophetic Response to Suffering   Eliya Mohol     15
The Cross in the Gospels   Babu Immanuel     23
The Cross and Power: Parting of Ways   Kenneth Cragg     33
Reflections from Contexts     47
Early Discourse     47
Denying the Cross in Early Muslim Dialogues with Christians   David Thomas     49
Debating the Cross in Early Christian Dialogues with Muslims   Ivor Mark Beaumont     55
Reflections from Selected Regions     65
The Gospel in Afghan Pashto Poetry, Proverbs and Folklore   Leonard N. Bartlotti     67
An Islamic 'Good Friday': Celebrating the Feast of Sacrifice in Indonesia   Jonathan Culver     85
The Cross and Reconciliation in Palestine   Salim Munayer     89
The Cross and 'Outreach' Literature in East Africa   John Chesworth     97
A Girardian Reading and Response to Communal Violence in India   Jose Abraham     105
A Pakistani Christian'sPerspective on the Cross   Pervaiz Sultan     115
The Cross in the Egyptian 'Church of the Martyrs'   Arne Fjeldstad     121
Prophethood and the Cross   Hwa Yung     125
Theological Reflections     135
Cross-Reference Theology: Speaking, thinking and living the cross in the context of Islam   Ida Glaser     137
God, the Beneficent-the Merciful, and Jesus's Cross: From abstract to concrete theologising   Rollin G. Grams     157
A Christian Response to the Absence of the Cross in Islam   Clinton Bennett     167
The Qur'an and the Cross - Less Absent than you Think   Kenneth Cragg     177
Christology in an Alternative Islamic Theological Structure   David Emmanuel Singh     187
Bibliography     201
Subject Index     222
Name Index     224
Place Index     226