Jesus and the Cross

by Singh, David Emmanuel; Sanneh, Lamin

• ISBN13: 9781606080214
• ISBN10: 1606080210
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

The paper in this volume are organized 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? This is, therefore, an exercise in listening. As the contexts from where these engagements arise are varied, the papers in drawing scriptural, contextual and theological reflections offer a cross-section of Christian thinking about Jesus and the Cross.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Cross in the Scriptures	p. 5
Ecce, Agnus Dei: The Cross in The Old Testament	p. 7
The Prophetic Response to Suffering	p. 15
The Cross in the Gospels	p. 23
The Cross and Power: Parting of Ways	p. 33
Reflections from Contexts	p. 47
Early Discourse	p. 47
Denying the Cross in Early Muslim Dialogues with Christians	p. 49
Debating the Cross in Early Christian Dialogues with Muslims	p. 55
Reflections from Selected Regions	p. 65
The Gospel in Afghan Pashto Poetry, Proverbs and Folklore	p. 67
An Islamic 'Good Friday': Celebrating the Feast of Sacrifice in Indonesia	p. 85
The Cross and Reconciliation in Palestine	p. 89
The Cross and 'Outreach' Literature in East Africa	p. 97
A Girardian Reading and Response to Communal Violence in India	p. 105
A Pakistani Christian's Perspective on the Cross	p. 115
The Cross in the Egyptian 'Church of the Martyrs'	p. 121
Prophethood and the Cross	p. 125
Theological Reflections	p. 135
Cross-Reference Theology: Speaking, thinking and living the cross in the context of Islam	p. 137
God, the Beneficent-the Merciful, and Jesus's Cross: From abstract to concrete theologising	p. 157
A Christian Response to the Absence of the Cross in Islam	p. 167
The Qur'an and the Cross - Less Absent than you Think	p. 177
Christology in an Alternative Islamic Theological Structure	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 201
Subject Index	p. 222
Name Index	p. 224
Place Index	p. 226
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