Earth, Empire and Sacred Text: Muslims and Christians as Trustees of Creation

By:

Johnston, David L

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Comparative Islamic StudiesPublication details: Sheffield Equinox Publishing Ltd 2013Description: 632pISBN:

9781781790359

DDC classification:

J641 C86

Contents:

Part I: Our Postmodern Condition Part II: Human Trusteeship Part III: Toward an Applied Muslim Christian Theology of Trusteeship Part I OUR POSTMODERN SITUATION Chapter 1 POSTMODERNITY AND THE DOUBLE WALL Postmodernity and the Wall of Social Injustice Postmodernity and the Destruction of Earth Beyond Modernity: A Holistic Vision of Eco-Justice Chapter 2 BEYOND MODERNISM: TIME, SPACE AND THE SELF Modernity, Capitalism, and the Compression of Time and Space Death of the Autonomous Subject? Chapter 3 BEYOND MODERNISM: FROM THEORY TO ACTIVISM The Death of History? The Death of Metaphysics? Postmodern Activism: From Self to Global identity Chapter 4 QUR'AN, BIBLE, HERMENEUTICS AND THEOLOGY Hermeneutical Rumblings in Muslim Circles The Modern Trajectory of Hermeneutics An Approach to the Hermeneutics of Sacred Texts Chapter 5 Reading Holy Scriptures Earth, Empire and Sacred Text The Dynamic Nature of Sacred Texts My Own Approach to the Qur'an Part II HUMAN TRUSTEESHIP: MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS Chapter 6 ADAM AS GOD'S KHALIFA: QUR'ANIC DATA The Foundational Passage: Q. 2:30 The Other Singular Instance: Q. 38:26 The Amana Verse: Q. 33:72 Kenneth Cragg on Khalifa Chapter 7 TAFSIR OF Q. 2:30: CLASSICAL PERIOD Early Tafsir Literature The Traditional School of Tafsir The Rationalist School of Tafsir The Red Flag of Caliphate Politics The Mystical School of Tafsir A Second Evaluation Chapter 8 TAFSIR OF Q. 2:30: MODERN PERIOD Shah Wali Allah: Transition to Modernity The Period of the Reformers Chapter 9 TAFSIR OF Q. 2:30: POSTMODERN PERIOD A Traditionalist: al-Najjar's Khilifa Methodology 1954-2009: Islamism or Continued Reformism? Two Muslims on Postmodernity Learning from Postmodernism A Three-Chapter Summary Chapter 10 A BIBLICAL TRUSTEESHIP OF HUMANITY Exegetical Issues of Genesis 1 and 2 Classical Jewish and Christian Commentary on Genesis 1:28 Pushing the Limits in Dialogue Part III HUMAN TRUSTEESHIP MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS Chapter 11 A COMMON THEOLOGY OF TRUSTEESHIP Possible Steps Forward in Theology The Ethics of Trusteeship Chapter 12 CONCLUSION Peacebuilding in West Asia Reasonable Findings Widening the Circle of Dialogue Parting Words

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Part I: Our Postmodern Condition
Part II: Human Trusteeship
Part III: Toward an Applied Muslim Christian Theology
of Trusteeship
Part I
OUR POSTMODERN SITUATION
Chapter 1
POSTMODERNITY AND THE DOUBLE WALL
Postmodernity and the Wall of Social Injustice
Postmodernity and the Destruction of Earth
Beyond Modernity: A Holistic Vision of Eco-Justice
Chapter 2
BEYOND MODERNISM: TIME, SPACE AND THE SELF
Modernity, Capitalism, and the Compression
of Time and Space
Death of the Autonomous Subject?
Chapter 3
BEYOND MODERNISM: FROM THEORY TO ACTIVISM
The Death of History?
The Death of Metaphysics?
Postmodern Activism: From Self to Global identity
Chapter 4
QUR'AN, BIBLE, HERMENEUTICS AND THEOLOGY
Hermeneutical Rumblings in Muslim Circles
The Modern Trajectory of Hermeneutics
An Approach to the Hermeneutics of Sacred Texts
Chapter 5
Reading Holy Scriptures
Earth, Empire and Sacred Text
The Dynamic Nature of Sacred Texts
My Own Approach to the Qur'an
Part II
HUMAN TRUSTEESHIP:
MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS
Chapter 6
ADAM AS GOD'S KHALIFA: QUR'ANIC DATA
The Foundational Passage: Q. 2:30
The Other Singular Instance: Q. 38:26
The Amana Verse: Q. 33:72
Kenneth Cragg on Khalifa
Chapter 7
TAFSIR OF Q. 2:30: CLASSICAL PERIOD
Early Tafsir Literature
The Traditional School of Tafsir
The Rationalist School of Tafsir
The Red Flag of Caliphate Politics
The Mystical School of Tafsir
A Second Evaluation
Chapter 8
TAFSIR OF Q. 2:30: MODERN PERIOD
Shah Wali Allah: Transition to Modernity
The Period of the Reformers
Chapter 9
TAFSIR OF Q. 2:30: POSTMODERN PERIOD
A Traditionalist: al-Najjar's Khilifa Methodology
1954-2009: Islamism or Continued Reformism?
Two Muslims on Postmodernity
Learning from Postmodernism
A Three-Chapter Summary
Chapter 10
A BIBLICAL TRUSTEESHIP OF HUMANITY
Exegetical Issues of Genesis 1 and 2
Classical Jewish and Christian Commentary on Genesis 1:28
Pushing the Limits in Dialogue
Part III
HUMAN TRUSTEESHIP
MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS
Chapter 11
A COMMON THEOLOGY OF TRUSTEESHIP
Possible Steps Forward in Theology
The Ethics of Trusteeship
Chapter 12
CONCLUSION
Peacebuilding in West Asia
Reasonable Findings
Widening the Circle of Dialogue
Parting Words

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