Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology

by Burrell, David B.

• ISBN13: 9781444395808
• ISBN10: 1444395807
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2011-04-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology delineates the ways that Christianity, Islam, and the Jewish tradition have moved towards each another over the centuries and points to new pathways for contemporary theological work. 

• Explores the development of the three Abrahamic traditions, brilliantly showing the way in which they have struggled with similar issues over the centuries
• Shows how the approach of each tradition can be used comparatively by the other traditions to illuminate and develop their own thinking
• Written by a renowned writer in philosophical theology, widely acclaimed for his comparative thinking on Jewish and Islamic theology
• A very timely book which moves forward the discussion at a period of intense inter-religious dialogue

Author Biography

David B. Burrell, Hesburgh Professor emeritus at University of Notre Dame, teaches Ethics and Development at Uganda Martyrs University. He has published extensively in comparative issues in philosophical theology in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and is the author of Faith and Freedom (2006), Wiley-Blackwell.

Table of Contents

Preface: Road to this Inquiry: from Marcel Dubois to Anawati/Gardet, and Vatican II to current exchanges.

Introduction.

1. Free creation as a shared task for Jews, Christians, Muslims.

2. Relating divine freedom and human freedom: diverging and converging strategies.

3. Human initiative and divine grace: Augustine and Ghazali.

4. Trust in divine providence: al-Ghazali, deCaussade, and Maimonides.

5. The point of it all: creation to consummation, ‘return’, judgment, and ‘second coming’, with John of the Cross and Edith Stein, Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart, Moses Maimonides.

6. Realized eschatology: stories displaying faith as a mode of knowing and journeying.

7. Respectfully negotiating outstanding neuralgic issues: contradictions and conversions.

Epilogue: Misuses and Abuses of Abrahamic Traditions.