Humanity before God: contemporary faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ethics

Humanity before God: contemporary faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ethics

Schweiker, William, editor
Johnson, Michael A., editor
Jung, Kevin, editor

Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006.

United States of America: Minneapolis, MN

326 p.

English

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Contributors -- Introduction / Michael A. Johnson, Kevin Jung, and William Schweiker -- Part One: The distinctiveness of human being -- 1. Monotheism and humanism / Hilary Putnam -- 2. Human vicegerency: a blessing or a curse? The challenge to be God's caliph in the Qur'an / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- 3. Embodying Godѫs image: created, broken, and redeemed / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- 4. The image of God and the human ideal: reflections from the varieties of Judaism / Michael Fishbane -- 5. Distinctive love: gratitude for life and theological humanism / William Schweiker -- 6. The image, the glory, and the holy: aspects of being human in Biblical thought / Tikva Frymer-Kensky -- 7. Creation and initiative: a reading of Ricoeur's ethics of originary affirmation / Michael A. Johnson -- Part Two: Humanity in creation -- 8. The humanistic ethic: Jewish reflections / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- 9. Common morality, premoral goods, and religion / Kevin Jung -- 10. Natural-law Judaism? The genesis of bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass / Lawrence Vogel -- 11. Divine justice and the human order: an Islamic perspective / Azizah Y. al-Hibri -- 12. Religion, human rights, and secularism: preliminary clarifications and some Islamic, Jewish, and Christian responses / David Little -- 13. Armed force and political responsibility: justification and resort to war in Abrahamic traditions / John Kelsay -- 14. Standing before God: human responsibilities and human rights / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Index of names and subjects -- Index of scriptural references

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