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A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints
In A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints: The Community of God's Friends, Hans A. Harmakaputra focuses on a question that emerges from today's multi-faith context: "Is it possible for Christians to recognize non-Christians as saints?" To answer affirmatively, he offers a Christian perspective on an inclusive theology of saints through the lens of comparative theology that is based on the thought of Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim theologians: Karl Rahner, Jean-Luc Marion, Elizabeth Johnson, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Tillich, and Ibn Arabī'. As a result of this interreligious comparison, three theological constructs emerge: (1) saints as manifestations and revealers of God's self-communication, (2) the hiddenness of saints, and (3) saints as companions. These theological constructs redefine and reconfigure Christian understanding of saints on one hand, and on the other hand provide theological reasoning to include non-Christians in the Christian notion of the communion of saints.
A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints
As a work in comparative theology, this book presents how an Islamic concept of sainthood (walāya) informs Christian theology in answering one question that emerges from today’s multi-faith context: “Is it possible for Christians to recognize non-Christians as saints?”
The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies
The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies provides fifty thought-provoking chapters on the history, priorities, challenges, pedagogies, and practical applications of this emerging field, written by an international roster of practitioners of or experts across diverse religious traditions.
Comparative Hagiology
This Special Issue engages with questions of theory and methods in the comparative, cross-cultural study of hagiographical sources. As such, it offers, first and foremost, the venue for conducting a scientific discussion on a (re)definition of "hagiography". It also allows for the identification of shared approaches and methodologies in the study of material that may be apprehended through this categorization, as an effective strategy for the study of religious phenomena. To achieve this, the present volume brings together a selected number of scholars, whose work focuses on the theoretical study of "hagiography" and the historical examination of hagiographical sources. In this Special Issue, five core essays put forward propositions for the comparative and cross-cultural (re)definition of "hagiography", to which further contributors respond, eventually providing a vibrant collaborative debate on a core theoretical and methodological issue in religious studies at large.
Violence, Religion, Peacemaking
This volume explores how religious leaders can contribute to cultures of peace around the world. The essays are written by leading and emerging scholars and practitioners who have lived, taught, or worked in the areas of conflict about which they write. Connecting the theory and practice of religious peacebuilding to illuminate key challenges facing interreligious dialogue and interreligious peace work, the volume is explicitly interreligious, intercultural, and global in perspective. The chapters approach religion and peace from the vantage point of security studies, sociology, ethics, ecology, theology, and philosophy. A foreword by David Smock, the Vice President of Governance, Law and Society and Director of the Religion and Peacebuilding Center at the United States Institute of Peace, outlines the current state of the field.
A Revolutionary Jesus
This book is about Jesus's perspective on violence, the ways this is demonstrated in his ministry, and its implications for Jesus's followers. It begins by examining the nature and role of violence within Second Temple Jewish eschatology. "Eschatological violence"--violence connected in some way with eschatological expectations--was an important factor in the world of Jesus and his contemporaries. Many believed that God's long-awaited deliverance was contingent on his people's taking up the sword against their oppressors, thus demonstrating their zealous allegiance to the covenant. In contrast, Jesus articulated and enacted a vision for God's reign in which violence was completely disassocia...
Dari Pengenalan Diri Menuju Majelis Sinode 80
Buku ini merupakan sebuah usaha memahami diri dan institusi dalam satu kali tarikan nafas. Artinya bahwa memahami diri dan institusi tidak bisa dipisahkan. Diri hanya dapat dipahami dalam kaitannya dengan institusi di mana ia hidup dan menjalani keanggotaannya. Demikian institusi hanya dapat dipahami dalam keberadaan diri anggotanya. Diri adalah aktor yang menggerakkan institusi, sementara institusi adalah medan di mana aktor bermain posisi dan peran dalam upaya mencapai kebaikan hidup bersama. Buku ini secara sadar memakai perspektif Ricoeurian, yang dimulai dari transformasi subjek atau disebut juga pembaruan diri menuju trasformasi institusi atau pembaruan kelembagaan. Transformasi diri (...
Cambodian Evangelicalism
The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverberate through the community. In this book, Briana L. Wong explores the compelling stories of Cambodian evangelicals, their process of conversion, and how their testimonials to the Christian faith helped them to make sense of and find purpose in their trauma. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Cambodian communities in the metropolitan areas of Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Paris, and Phnom Penh, Wong examines questions of religious identity and the search for meaning within the context of transnational Cambodian evangelicalism. While the community...
Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology
The first systematic overview of the field of comparative theology Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology offers a synthesis of and a blueprint for the emerging field of comparative theology. It discusses various approaches to the field, the impact of religious views of other religions on the way in which comparative theology is conducted, and the particularities of comparative theological hermeneutics. It also provides an overview of the types of learning and of the importance of comparative theology for traditional confessional theology. Though drawing mainly from examples of Christian comparative theology, the book presents a methodological framework that may be applied to any religio...
