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Does religious extremism represent an inevitable consequence of firmly held beliefs in life-and-death situations? Is there a way out?

Gathering ethicists and scholars from the three major and often conflicting monotheistic traditions, each was asked to correlate a religious tradition's sacred texts and tradition with the contemporary world's pluralism and claims about the inalienable sanctity and dignity of human life. The result is that the reader sees "human life before God" in new and profound ways.

Contributors include:

Hilary Putnam

Abdulaziz Sachedina

Lisa Sowle Cahill

Michael Fishbane

William Schweiker

Tikva Frymer-Kensky

Michael A. Johnson

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Kevin Jung

Lawrence Vogel

Azizah al-Hibri

David Little

Kohn Kelsay

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Contributors(p. ix)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Part 1 The Distinctiveness of Human Being
• 1 Monotheism and Humanism(p. 19)
• 2 Human Vicegerency: A Blessing or a Curse? The Challenge to Be God's Caliph in the Qur'an(p. 31)
• 3 Embodying God's Image: Created, Broken, and Redeemed(p. 55)
• 4 The Image of God and the Human Ideal: Reflections from the Varieties of Judaism(p. 78)
• 5 Distinctive Love: Gratitude for Life and Theological Humanism(p. 91)
• 6 The Image, the Glory, and the Holy: Aspects of Being Human in Biblical Thought(p. 118)
• 7 Creation and Initiative: A Reading of Ricoeur's Ethics of Originary Affirmation(p. 139)
• Part 2 Humanity in Creation
• 8 The Humanistic Ethic: Jewish Reflections(p. 175)
• 9 Common Morality, Premoral Goods, and Religion(p. 185)
• 10 Natural-Law Judaism? The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass(p. 209)
• 11 Divine Justice and the Human Order: An Islamic Perspective(p. 238)
• 12 Religion, Human Rights, and Secularism: Preliminary Clarifications and Some Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Responses(p. 256)
• 13 Armed Force and Political Responsibility: Justification and Resort to War in Abrahamic Traditions(p. 284)
• 14 Standing before God: Human Responsibilities and Human Rights(p. 299)
• Index of Names and Subjects(p. 321)
• Index of Scriptural References(p. 324)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

William Schweiker is one of the leading theological ethicists in North America. He is Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago, USA. Michael Johnson is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, USA. Kevin Jung recently received his doctorate in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago and is Spruill Fellow at Emory University, USA.