Johnston, David L <br/><br/>
Earth, Empire and Sacred Text: Muslims and Christians as Trustees of Creation 

 - Sheffield  Equinox Publishing Ltd  2013 
 - 632p 
 - Comparative Islamic Studies .
<br/><br/>Part I: Our Postmodern Condition<br/>Part II: Human Trusteeship<br/>Part III: Toward an Applied Muslim Christian Theology<br/>of Trusteeship<br/>Part I<br/>OUR POSTMODERN SITUATION<br/>Chapter 1<br/>POSTMODERNITY AND THE DOUBLE WALL<br/>Postmodernity and the Wall of Social Injustice<br/>Postmodernity and the Destruction of Earth<br/>Beyond Modernity: A Holistic Vision of Eco-Justice<br/>Chapter 2<br/>BEYOND MODERNISM: TIME, SPACE AND THE SELF<br/>Modernity, Capitalism, and the Compression<br/>of Time and Space<br/>Death of the Autonomous Subject?<br/>Chapter 3<br/>BEYOND MODERNISM: FROM THEORY TO ACTIVISM<br/>The Death of History?<br/>The Death of Metaphysics?<br/>Postmodern Activism: From Self to Global identity<br/>Chapter 4<br/>QUR'AN, BIBLE, HERMENEUTICS AND THEOLOGY<br/>Hermeneutical Rumblings in Muslim Circles<br/>The Modern Trajectory of Hermeneutics<br/>An Approach to the Hermeneutics of Sacred Texts<br/>Chapter 5<br/>Reading Holy Scriptures<br/>Earth, Empire and Sacred Text<br/>The Dynamic Nature of Sacred Texts<br/>My Own Approach to the Qur'an<br/>Part II<br/>HUMAN TRUSTEESHIP:<br/>MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS<br/>Chapter 6<br/>ADAM AS GOD'S KHALIFA: QUR'ANIC DATA<br/>The Foundational Passage: Q. 2:30<br/>The Other Singular Instance: Q. 38:26<br/>The Amana Verse: Q. 33:72<br/>Kenneth Cragg on Khalifa<br/>Chapter 7<br/>TAFSIR OF Q. 2:30: CLASSICAL PERIOD<br/>Early Tafsir Literature<br/>The Traditional School of Tafsir<br/>The Rationalist School of Tafsir<br/>The Red Flag of Caliphate Politics<br/>The Mystical School of Tafsir<br/>A Second Evaluation<br/>Chapter 8<br/>TAFSIR OF Q. 2:30: MODERN PERIOD<br/>Shah Wali Allah: Transition to Modernity<br/>The Period of the Reformers<br/>Chapter 9<br/>TAFSIR OF Q. 2:30: POSTMODERN PERIOD<br/>A Traditionalist: al-Najjar's Khilifa Methodology<br/>1954-2009: Islamism or Continued Reformism?<br/>Two Muslims on Postmodernity<br/>Learning from Postmodernism<br/>A Three-Chapter Summary<br/>Chapter 10<br/>A BIBLICAL TRUSTEESHIP OF HUMANITY<br/>Exegetical Issues of Genesis 1 and 2<br/>Classical Jewish and Christian Commentary on Genesis 1:28<br/>Pushing the Limits in Dialogue<br/>Part III<br/>HUMAN TRUSTEESHIP<br/>MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS<br/>Chapter 11<br/>A COMMON THEOLOGY OF TRUSTEESHIP<br/>Possible Steps Forward in Theology<br/>The Ethics of Trusteeship<br/>Chapter 12<br/>CONCLUSION<br/>Peacebuilding in West Asia<br/>Reasonable Findings<br/>Widening the Circle of Dialogue<br/>Parting Words 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781781790359 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>C86  / J641