Humanity before God : contemporary faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ethics /
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Minneapolis, MN :
Fortress Press,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Michael A. Johnson, Kevin Jung, and William Schweiker
- Part I: The distinctiveness of human being
- Monotheism and humanism / Hilary Putnam
- Human vicegerency : a blessing or a curse? : the challenge to be God's Caliph in the Qur'an / Abdulaziz Sachedina
- Embodying God's image : created, broken, and redeemed / Lisa Sowle Cahill
- The image of God and the human ideal : reflections from the varieties of Judaism / Michael Fishbane
- Distinctive love : gratitude for life and theological humanism / William Schweiker
- The image, the glory and the holy : aspects of being human in biblical thought / Tikva Frymer-Kensky
- Creation and initiative : a reading of Ricoeur's ethics of originary affirmation / Michael A. Johnson
- Part II: Humanity in creation
- The humanistic ethic : Jewish reflections / Paul Mendes-Flohr
- Common morality, premoral goods, and religion / Kevin Jung
- Natural-law judaism? the genesis of bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss and Leon Kass / Lawrence Vogel
- Divine justice and the human order / Azizah Y. al-Hibri
- Religion, human rights, and secularism : preliminary clarifications and some Islamic, Jewish, and Christian responses / David Little
- Armed force and political responsibility : justification and resort to war in Abrahamic traditions / John Kelsay
- Standing before God : human responsibilities and human rights / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.