UID:
edocfu_9960118427502883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108779494
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1108779492
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9781108805032
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1108805035
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1-108-77949-2
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1-108-80503-5
Series Statement:
Current issues in theology
Content:
Sharī'a is one of the most hotly contested and misunderstood concepts and practices in the world today. Debates about Islamic law and its relationship to secularism and Christianity have dominated political and theological discourse for centuries. Unfortunately, Western Christian theologians have failed to engage sufficiently with the challenges and questions raised by Islamic political theology, preferring instead to essentialize or dismiss it. In Law and the Rule of God, Joshua Ralston presents an innovative approach to Christian-Muslim dialogue. Eschewing both polemics and apologetics, he proposes a comparative framework for Christian engagement with Islamic debates on sharī'a. Ralston draws on a diverse range of thinkers from both traditions including Karl Barth, Ibn Taymiyya, Thomas Aquinas, and Mohammad al-Jabri. He offers an account of public law as a provisional and indirect witness to the divine rule of justice. He also demonstrates how this theology of public law deeply resonates with the Christian tradition and is also open to learning from and dialoguing with Islamic and secular conceptions of law, sovereignty, and justice.
Note:
Includes index.
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Christian Political Theology as Comparative Theology -- Neither Conciliation nor Confrontation : A Comparative Approach to Sharia and Islamic Jurisprudence -- "That Hideous Schizophrenia" : A Genealogy of Muslim Critiques of Christian Theologies of the Law -- The Difficulty with Distinctions : Justin Martyr, Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther on Law -- Building a Christological Legal Foundation : A Comparative Political Theology after Karl Barth -- The Witness of the Law in Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion : Toward a Comparative Theo-Legal Discourse.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-48982-6
Language:
English
