Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Crisis and the Call to Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Sign of Jonah: A Christian Perspective on the Relation of the Abrahamic Faiths....Pages 15-30
Hagar and Esau: From Others to Sisters and Brothers....Pages 31-46
Qur’an and the Image of the “Other”: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly....Pages 47-58
“These Are the Generations”: Reasoning with Rabbi Samuel ben Meier....Pages 59-69
Three Voices, One Response: Here I Am....Pages 71-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
The Poor Are Always with You....Pages 93-107
Hearing the Cry of the Poor....Pages 109-121
The Tests of Poverty: Qur’anic Perspectives....Pages 123-138
In the Bosom of Abraham: Saint Bonaventure, Lazarus, and the Houses of Hospitality....Pages 139-152
Charity and the Good Life: On Islamic Prophetic Ethics....Pages 153-167
Lawe, loue, and lewete: The Kenotic Vision of Traditional Christian Political Theology....Pages 169-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Human Contention and Divine Argument: Faith and Truth in the Qur’anic Story of Abraham....Pages 191-207
Abraham in the Image of Job: A Model for Postcritical Readings of Scripture....Pages 209-221
Moses and the Mountain of Knowledge....Pages 223-230
Moses in the Sea: Reading Scripture as Liturgical Performance....Pages 231-242
Transfigured Exegesis....Pages 243-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-277