Things that Make for Peace

Traversing Text and Tradition in Christianity and Islam

Buch | Hardcover

134 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9164-5 (ISBN)

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In this book, Christian and Islamic scholars explore aspects of their own tradition and draw from sacred texts and history to offer readings of the traditions that contest assumptions that the religions are inherently violent and that offer a more hopeful and peaceful vision.

In a world that increasingly sees religion as a source of violence, this book explores resources from within religious traditions that might help build peace. Drawing from the rich textual histories of Christianity and Islam, the contributors mine their faith traditions for ways of thinking and ways of being that help shift perceptions about religion, and actively contribute to the growth of peace in our troubled times.

Not content with retreat into religious exclusivism, these essays are an act of sharing something held dear. In sharing, the thing offered no longer remains the possession of the one who offers, and so these essays are an act of vulnerability and trust-building. In sharing precious things together, in giving and receiving, peace becomes not only a matter of dialogue, but also shared commitments to ways of being.

Anthony Rees is lecturer in Old Testament/Hebrew bible at United Theological College, Charles Sturt University, and a research fellow of the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology.

First Things

Anthony Rees

Chapter 1: Peace, Nonviolence, and Islam

Zeki Saritoprak

Chapter 2: Like Lightning? Luke 17:22–37 Revisited in Interfaith Perspective

David J. Neville

Chapter 3: The Prophets as Archetypes of Peace in the Qur’an: The Use and Non-use of Isrā’īliyyāt Sources in the Story of Mūsa

Mahsheed Ansari and Hakan Coruh

Chapter 4: From Cultures of Violence to Ways of Peace: Reading the Benedictus in the Context of Australia’s Treatment of Asylum Seekers in Offshore Detention

Anne Elvey

Chapter 5: A Prophetic Stance against Violence: Analysis of the Meccan Period of Prophet Muhammad’s Life and Centrality of Peace as a Preferred Method

Suleyman Sertkaya

Chapter 6: Leaving Judgement to God: Jonah’s Struggle

Marie-Louise Craig

Chapter 7: An Apocalypse That Welcomes Others? Reading Revelation Peacefully

U-Wen Low

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Co-Autor	Anthony Rees, Zeki Saritoprak, David J. Neville, Mahsheed Ansari
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-4985-9164-7 / 1498591647
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-9164-5 / 9781498591645
Zustand	Neuware