The Gift of Responsibility The Promise of Dialogue among Christians, Jews, and Muslims

by Mudge, Lewis S.

• ISBN13: 9780826428394
• ISBN10: 0826428398
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

For Christian theologian and ecumenist Lewis Mudge, interreligious dialogue, ever returning to its shared Abrahamic origins, proposes "rooted cosmopolitans," offering a gift of responsibility toward the well-being of humankind. That gift provides an awareness of the opportunity to assist societies in overcoming betrayals of their own Enlightenment-based promises of secular salvation. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Lewis S. Mudge is Robert Leighton Stuart Professor of Theology Emeritus at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Abrahamic Communities and the Traumas of Modernity	p. 23
Exploring the Lay of the Land: Searching for a Common Agenda	p. 25
Public Religions in the Modern World: Opportunity and Responsibility	p. 55
The "Modern Project": How We Got This Way and What Can Be Done about It	p. 85
Parallel and Interactive Hermeneutics: Three Inter-Abrahamic Projects	p. 117
Dimensions of Inter-Abrahamic Discourse	p. 139
Reading Scriptures Together: Obedience and Responsibility in the Abraham Narratives	p. 141
Communities of Covenantal Virtue: Forgiveness, Trust, Solidarity	p. 179
Political Philosophy for an Abrahamic Public Presence	p. 225
For All the Families of the Earth	p. 253
Civil Society and Social Contracts in Israel-Palestine	p. 255
Toward a Covenantal Humanism	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 311
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