The monotheists : Jews, Christians, and Muslims in conflict and competition. Volume II, The words and will of God /

The monotheists : Jews, Christians, and Muslims in conflict and competition. Volume II, The words and will of God /

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Author / Creator:Peters, F. E. (Francis E.)
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Description:1 online resource (xxv, 406 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
Judaism -- Relations -- Islam.
Islam -- Relations -- Judaism.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
Christianity.
Interfaith relations.
Islam.
Judaism.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198967
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Varying Form of Title:Words and will of God
ISBN:9781400825714
1400825717
9780691123738
069112373X
Notes:Includes index.
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Summary:The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions--seeks not so much to demonstrate the truth of this thesis as to illustrate it. Frank Peters, one of the world's foremost experts on the monotheistic faiths, takes Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and after briefly tracing the roots of each, places.
Other form:Print version: Peters, F.E. (Francis E.). Monotheists : Volume II, The words and will of God. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003 0691114617
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Scriptures: Bible, New Testament, And Quran
  • Three Sacred Books
  • People of the Book
  • The Bible
  • Sacred Tongues
  • On Translations
  • Scriptural Criticism
  • Who Wrote the Bible?
  • Explaining Revelation
  • High Prophetology
  • Heavenly Books
  • The New Testament: Notion, Text, and Canon
  • The Biblical Canon
  • The Inspiration of Scripture
  • Contingency and the Constraints of History
  • Humanist Critics of Scripture
  • The Old Testament and the New
  • The Arrangement of the Quran
  • The Composition of the Quran
  • The Editing of the Quran
  • The Collection of the Quran
  • Qere and Ketib
  • Interpolation and Abrogation
  • Closure
  • 2. Understanding The Word Of God
  • The Seal and the Silence
  • Biblical Exegesis
  • Midrash
  • An Unfolding Tradition
  • Philo Rereads Scripture
  • Evangelical Exegesis
  • The Senses of Scripture
  • Marcion Reads the Scripture
  • Why Don't We Understand?44
  • Fathers and Other Authorities
  • The Glossa Ordinaria, Christian and Jewish
  • The Quran Reads the Bible
  • Quranic Ambiguities
  • The "Occasions of Revelation"
  • Tabari Enthroned
  • Plain and Allegorical Exegesis in Islam
  • The Muslims Struggle with Revelation and Reason
  • Shiite Tafsir
  • Learning from the Muslims
  • Two Medieval Jewish Commentators: Ibn Ezra and Rashi
  • The Great Debates
  • The Reform of Christian Exegesis
  • Control of the Book
  • A Closer, and Different, Look at Scripture
  • Exegesis and Hermeneutics
  • 3. Scripture And Tradition
  • The Great Tradition
  • Rabbinic Judaism
  • "How Many Torahs Do You Have?"
  • Making the Mishnah
  • Mishnah and Gemara
  • Validating the Rabbis
  • Attacking the Tradition: Sadducees and Karaites
  • Jewish Reform
  • The Beginnings of a Christian Tradition
  • The Deposit of Faith
  • Apostolic Tradition and Apostolic Succession
  • Sola Scriptura
  • The Tradition Debate
  • The War of the Historians
  • The Sunna of the Prophet
  • Hadith Criticism
  • The Canonical Collections
  • Quran and Sunna
  • The Shiite Hadith
  • 4. God's Law And Its Observance
  • Purity and Defilement
  • Biblical Law
  • The Lesson of Qumran
  • The Tradition from the Fathers
  • The Mishnah and the Two Talmuds
  • Two Jewish Codes: Mishneh Torah and Shulkhan Aruk
  • The Purpose of the Law
  • The Administration of Jewish Law
  • The Rabbis
  • The Instruments of God's Justice
  • Jesus and the Law
  • Christians and the Law
  • A Law for Christians
  • The Sources of Christian Law
  • The Codification of Church Law
  • The Beginnings of Western Canon Law
  • Gratian
  • Catechesis and Catechism
  • An Islamic Catechism: The Pillars of Islam
  • Sharia, the Muslim Way
  • From Prophetic Tradition to Law
  • The Administration of Justice in Islam
  • The Qadi
  • The Qadi's Justice
  • Responsa and Fatwas: The Mufti
  • The Qadi and the Mufti
  • The Schools
  • Shiite Law
  • Ijtihad
  • The Closing of the Gate
  • The Hierarchization of the Ulama
  • Ijtihad Unchained
  • Customary Law and Governance in Islam
  • Qanun: The Sultan's Law
  • Jewish Rabbis and Islamic Ulama
  • 5. God's Commandments And Human Morality
  • Values and Value Systems
  • Whence Evil?129
  • The Diabolic, the Demonic
  • The Jinn, Shaytan, and Iblis
  • Sin and Atonement in Israel
  • Acquittal
  • Jesus' Moral Teaching
  • Pauline Morality
  • Original Sin
  • Manichaeism
  • Augustine as Moralist
  • Augustine and Pelagius
  • Penance and the Sacramental System
  • Purgatory and Indulgences
  • Who Will Be Saved?
  • The Absolute Will of God
  • The Disputed Question of Nature and Grace
  • Justification
  • Doubly Saved and Doubly Damned
  • The Council of Trent on Justification
  • The Magisterium Restored
  • A Conference on "Aids"
  • The Crisis in Catholic Morality
  • Jansenism
  • From Pascal to Alfonso di Ligouri
  • Muhammad as Moral Exemplar
  • Islamic Morality
  • Free Will and Predestination in Islam
  • A Rationalist Solution
  • Acquiring Responsibility
  • Consensus on Matters Moral
  • 6. Divine Worship
  • Shekinah/Sakina
  • Sacrifice
  • The Jesus Sacrifice
  • The Jewish Priesthood
  • The Synagogue
  • The Eucharist
  • Liturgies Eastern and Western
  • Eucharistic Issues: Who, When, and How?
  • The Reform Liturgy
  • Christmas
  • Muslim Prayer
  • Friday Prayer and the Mosque
  • The Hajj
  • Intercalation Prohibited
  • The Enshrinement of Jerusalem
  • Christian Pilgrimage
  • The Western Wall
  • Popular Devotions in Christianity
  • The Cult of Mary
  • From Piety to Dogma: An Immaculate Conception and Prophetic Impeccability
  • The Veneration of the Saints
  • Canonization
  • Eucharistic Devotions
  • Popular Devotions in Islam
  • The Friends of God
  • Three Dramatic Narratives: Passover, Passion, and the Death of Husayn
  • Idols and Images
  • Emperor Portrayal, Christian Style
  • Christian Images
  • Christian Iconoclasm
  • Stripping the Altars: Images and the Reform
  • Islam and the Graven Image
  • The Word as Decoration
  • 7. Thinking About God
  • Mythos and Logos
  • The Theology of Philo of Alexandria
  • Athens and Jerusalem
  • Theology and Creeds: Nicaea to Chalcedon
  • The Muslims Encounter Aristotle
  • Falsafa
  • Talking about God: The Muslim Beginnings
  • Learning to Speak Dialectically
  • An Islamic Inquisition
  • Kalam Matured
  • Muslim Creeds
  • Reason and Revelation in Islam
  • God Supreme: Islamic Occasionalism
  • Ibn Rushd
  • The Voice of Conservative Islamic Orthodoxy
  • Jewish Kalam
  • A Guide for the Perplexed
  • Falsafa and Kalam
  • Received Wisdom
  • Sacred Theology, Western Style
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Scholasticism
  • Latin Averroism
  • The Two Faces of Truth
  • The Reformation and Christian Systematic Theology
  • The Wisdom of Illumination
  • The School of Isfahan
  • 8. From Desert Saints To Muslim Sufis
  • The Way of the World
  • The Issue of Jewish Asceticism
  • The Desert a City
  • Obedience of the Spirit
  • The Saints in the City
  • The Rule of St. Basil
  • Benedict and the Benedictines
  • Benedictine Experiments: Carthusians and Cistercians
  • Canons Regular and Other
  • The Mendicant Friars: Franciscans and Dominicans
  • Is Perfection Possible? The Franciscan Controversy
  • Military Orders, Christian and Muslim
  • The Rise and Fall of the Society of Jesus
  • The Holy Mountain
  • The Personal Life of Muhammad
  • This World and the Next
  • The Beginnings of Muslim Asceticism
  • Sufi Convents: Khanqah, Ribat, Zawiya
  • The Sufi Orders
  • Sufis in the Service of Islam: Chishtis and Bektashis
  • The Chinese Rites
  • Christian and Muslim Religious Orders
  • Suppression
  • Jewish Brotherhoods in Galilee
  • Saints without Rules: The Hasidim
  • The Apostolic Succession in Eastern Europe
  • The Habad
  • 9. Leaping From The Dark Into The Light: Mysticism
  • Face to Face with God
  • The Beginnings
  • The Adepts of Qumran
  • The Celestial Chariot
  • "Four Who Attempted to Enter Paradise"
  • God's Love, God's Body
  • The Palaces
  • The Book of Creation
  • From Christian Asceticism to Mysticism
  • Approaching the Unknowable
  • The Jesus Prayer
  • Hesychasm
  • God's Energies and God's Essence
  • Spirituality, Eastern and Western
  • The Spiritual Exercises
  • Muhammad Cleansed, and Rapt
  • Did Muhammad See God?
  • The Sufi as Mystic
  • The Growth of Sufi Theory
  • Sufism and Gnosticism
  • Sufis and Shiites
  • Al-Hallaj
  • The Sufi Way
  • Practical Sufism
  • Spiritual Hierarchies
  • The Apotheosis of Ali: The Alawis
  • The Fathers of Islamic Theosophy: Ibn Sina and Suhrawardi
  • Defender of the Faith
  • Making Sufism Safe for Islam
  • Spiritual Resurrection
  • On the Edge: Ibn Arabi
  • The Seal of the Saints
  • The Teaching and Its Opponents
  • The Beginnings of Kabbalah
  • The Zohar
  • The World of the Sefiroth
  • Isaac Luria
  • Kabbalah for Everyone: Hasidism
  • 10. The Last Things
  • End Time Scenarios
  • After Death, What?
  • Death and Judgment
  • The Particular Judgment
  • The Resurrection of the Body
  • The Seed, the Statue, and the Conjunction of Materia and Forma
  • In the Meantime . . .
  • The Cosmology of the Other World
  • Mapping Paradise and Hell
  • A Heavenly Journey
  • Living High: The Angels
  • Angels in Arabia
  • The Vision of God
  • With a Little Help from the Creator
  • Paradise Lost: Maimonides (and Others) on the World to Come
  • Salvation
  • Religious Zionism: Hurrying the End
  • Political Zionism and Eretz Israel
  • The Birth Pangs of the Messiah
  • Realized and Futurist Eschatology in Christianity
  • A Christian Apocalypse
  • Millennialism/Chilianism
  • The Reign of the Spirit: Joachim de Fiore
  • Abraham the Intercessor
  • The Muslim Dead
  • The Quranic Eschaton
  • Intercession in Islam
  • A Savior Returns
  • The Mahdi
  • End Thoughts
  • People of the Book, and of the Covenant
  • Odium Theologicum
  • The Religion of Abraham
  • Who Is the Heir?
  • The True Israel
  • A Fractious Family
  • The Rivals' Charms
  • Faith and History
  • Index

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