Titlebook: Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions; Peter Ochs,William Stacy Johnson Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nat

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Human Contention and Divine Argument: Faith and Truth in the Qur’anic Story of Abrahamral imperatives of contemporary times, or must they rely exclusively upon traditional, medieval commentaries on the text? And if contemporary readings and interpretations are allowed, then who has the authority and the right to engage in such endeavors?

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Introduction: Crisis and the Call to Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditionsty for mutually enriching dialogue. Each of these traditions has placed great responsibility on specially endowed leaders-prophets, priests, imams, pastors, rabbis-who are charged with leading the community into paths of righteousness and peace. Leaders of this sort do not arise in isolation. On the

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The Sign of Jonah: A Christian Perspective on the Relation of the Abrahamic Faithsof historical events and theological truth. Mehdi was expressing his puzzlement that Christians could not agree with him that the most important thing about any religion was its message, not the messenger who conveyed it. Kevin and I, the Christians in the group, were fumbling to respond. After a fe

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Hagar and Esau: From Others to Sisters and Brothersrtraits of Hagar and Ishmael in the Torah. The fact that Hagar was wife to Abraham and Ishmael his first son provided a common ancestry to the people of the Bible and the people of the Qur’an. Given that God spoke directly to Hagar-and even allowed her to provide him with a name-made her much more t

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Hearing the Cry of the Poorthis essay in both obvious and more subterranean ways. The more obvious impact was that this essay was not the essay that I thought I was going to write. In the first few meetings I had a different text (a Talmudic text from Tractate Baba Bathra of the Babylonian Talmud,) which I thought would be th