Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00209643221096274
T. M. Lemos
Resumo Este artigo explora a maneira como as passagens de Isaías que resistem à violência são neutralizadas pelas inúmeras passagens do livro que a promovem. Mais especificamente, o artigo sustenta que o livro apresenta uma relação ambivalente em relação à pessoalidade de dominação, um tipo de pessoalidade que é dependente da violência desumanizadora. A disseminação de imagens de violência e armas em Isaías está ligada à relação problemática do livro com a pessoalidade de dominação. No entanto, se empregadas como parte de uma estratégia maior de busca de justiça, as passagens de Isaías podem ser usadas como instrumentos de resistência. ***
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/00209643221081705a
Esau D. McCaulley
afrIcan amerIcan InterpretIve approaches are more diverse and complicated than is usually recognized. These two books testify to the diversity of the African American experience, albeit in very different ways. McCaulley draws attention to a type of African American biblical interpretation often overlooked by academics: a church-based approach that differs from Black progressive, Black secular, White evangelical, and White mainline approaches. Junior and Schipper, meanwhile, examine the complex and divergent ways in which the Samson story of Judges 13–16 has been appropriated in discussions of race in America.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/00209643221081713
Mitri Raheb
The essay provides an Arab Christian perspective on early Islam. It examines the geopolitical and ecclesial context in which early Islam emerged in the seventh-century Middle East. In a context marked by religious fluidity and national churches, the essay argues that Qur’anic verses form the basis for viewing early Islam as part and parcel of the reception history of the Judeo-Christian tradition of late antiquity.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/00209643221081678
Younus Y. Mirza
Scholarship on Christian-Muslim relations often notes that the Islamic Mary (Maryam) is not seen as a figure in her own right but rather is viewed as ancillary to Jesus/‘Īsā. This paper will argue that the Islamic Mary is a protagonist, as the Qur’an defines her role, extols her spiritual state, and places her within its worldview. Maryam fits within the Qur’an’s larger framework of a daughter who is both similar to and distinct from the Christian Mary.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/00209643221081722
Joshua Ralston
In thIs book, Joshua Ralston proposes a comparative approach to political theology to understand better how human law-making could become a witness to God’s promised rule. An extended season of dialogue with many Muslim interlocutors in a variety of locations has prompted this project, which asks about the capacity of the gospel to inform Christian approaches to law, politics, and social systems that deliver real-world justice. Ralston notices that for Muslims, divine law (sharī’a) and legal reasoning (fiqh) are primary religious concerns, in contrast to the scant attention Christian theologians have generally paid to matters of jurisprudence. He also knows that a number of Muslim intellectuals, past and present, have criticized the Christian tradition for privatizing religion and ceding responsibility for public law to secular actors. The comparative methods of Catholic theologian David Burrell suggest a way to engage with multiple religious traditions on a subject of mutual concern (in his case, theological reflection on the doctrine of creation by Christians, Muslims, and Jews). In Karl Barth’s critique of natural law, Ralston finds crucial support for his quest to bring the whole of life, including systems of law, under the influence of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ. He is not arguing here for theocracy but for public law to demonstrate “provisional and indirect witness” to the eschatological vision of God (p. 255).
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/00209643221081721
Stanley H. Skreslet
This essay surveys the long history of Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt. Interfaith relations in this context have ranged from cordial to tense, depending on a variety of internal and external factors.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/00209643221081705b
Matthew Schlimm
afrIcan amerIcan InterpretIve approaches are more diverse and complicated than is usually recognized. These two books testify to the diversity of the African American experience, albeit in very different ways. McCaulley draws attention to a type of African American biblical interpretation often overlooked by academics: a church-based approach that differs from Black progressive, Black secular, White evangelical, and White mainline approaches. Junior and Schipper, meanwhile, examine the complex and divergent ways in which the Samson story of Judges 13–16 has been appropriated in discussions of race in America.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/00209643221081681
David L. Barnhart
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