Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions

Introduction; S.Johnson & P.Ochs PART I: COMMUNAL IDENTITY AND THE OTHER Introduction; S.Johnson The Sign of Jonah, A Christian Perspective on the Relation of the Abrahamic Faiths; K.Soulen Islam as our Other, Islam as Ourselves; S.Kepnes Qur'an and the Image of the 'Other,' The Good, the Bad, the Ugly; M.Aminrazavi 'These are the Generations,' Reasoning with Rabbi Samuel ben Meier; M.Signer The Sacredness of the Other, Abraham's Sacrifice as Test, Protest, and Testament; S.Johnson PART II: SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: POVERTY AND CHARITY Introduction; K.Hughes The Poor Are Always With You; K.Hughes Hearing the Cry of the Poor; A.Cohen The Tests of Poverty; T.Gianotti In the Bosom of Abraham, Saint Bonaventure, Lazarus, and the Houses of Hospitality; A.Astell Charity and the Good Life, On Islamic Prophetic Ethics; M.Azadpur Lawe, loue and lewete, The Kenotic Vision of Traditional Christian Political Theology; R.R.Reno PART III: ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS AND MODERNITY Introduction; M.M.Dakake Human Contention and Divine Argument, Faith and Truth in the Qur'anic Story of Abraham; M.M.Dakake Abraham in the Image of Job, A Model for Post-Modern Readings of Scripture; E.Alexander Moses and the Mountain of Knowledge; R.Jenson Moses in the Sea, Reading Scripture as Liturgical Performance; P.Ochs Transfigured Exegesis; C.Black