Faiths in Their Pronouns Websites of Identity

by Cragg, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9781903900154
• ISBN10: 1903900158
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

The pronoun is the very mother tongue of thought. Family, friends, kind and race, nation and society, the clamant "us" and "ours" of collectives, boil down to the "I" and "You" and "They," which are the transacting pronouns of all human discourse. Languag

Author Biography

Kenneth Cragg served in the countries of the Middle East as a teacher and writer, as bishop in the Anglican jurisdiction in Jerusalem, and also in posts in the UK, Lebanon, USA, and Africa. He is an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and a former Bye-Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Hon. DD of the University of Leeds

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(9)
The House of My Pilgrimage	9	(16)
The Personal Interrogative -- Arjuna and the Gita	25	(17)
``So Help Me -- Who?''	42	(16)
Pronounal Jewry -- God's Own People	58	(17)
The Self-Encounter in Judaism	75	(19)
The Muslim Personal Pronoun Singular	94	(17)
The Muslim Personal Pronoun Plural	111	(16)
The ``We'' and the ``I'' in the New Testament	127	(20)
Two Great Sexes Animate the World	147	(19)
Our Dividual Being -- The Irony of Mystical Union	166	(17)
Faiths' Pronoun-Users Now	183	(14)
Notes	197	(34)
Index of Names and Terms	231	(7)
Index of Themes	238	(5)
Biblical Passages	243	(1)
Quranic Passages	244