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Law and the rule of God : a Christian engagement with Shari'a /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ralston, Joshua (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Current issues in theology.
Subjects:
Dialogue > Religious aspects > Islam.
Dialogue > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Islam and secularism.
Islamic law.
Public law.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series information
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Transliteration and Texts
  • 1 Christian Political Theology as Comparative Theology
  • Christian Political Theology's Methodological Lacuna
  • Comparative Theology
  • David Burrell and a Comparative Account of Creation
  • A Comparative Political Theology of Law
  • 2 Neither Conciliation nor Confrontation: A Comparative Approach to Sharī'a and Islamic Jurisprudence
  • Models of Political Conciliation: Küng and Knitter
  • Hans Küng: Dialogue for a Shared Global Ethic
  • Ethical Essence and Legal Perversion
  • The Interconnection of Law and Ethics in Classical Sharī'a
  • Liberalism as Premature Conciliation and the Foreclosure of Dialogue
  • Paul Knitter: Another Model of Political Conciliation
  • Models of Confrontation: Milbank
  • John Milbank: Against Dialogue
  • Islam as Case Study of Milbank's Cultural Confrontation Model
  • Conclusion: Sharī'a and the Need for Christian Theological Engagement
  • 3 ''That Hideous Schizophrenia'': A Genealogy of Muslim Critiques of Christian Theologies of the Law
  • Christian Accounts of the Law in Qur'ānic Perspective
  • The Qur'ānic Grounding for Muslim Discussions of Christianity and Law
  • Taḥrīf and Early Muslim Interpretation of Christian Scripture and Law
  • The Beginnings of an Islamic Theo-Legal Critique of Christianity
  • The Law in Ibn Taymiyya's al-Jawāb al-Ṣaḥiḥ
  • A Summary of the Letter from Cyprus/Paul of Antioch's Claims about the Law
  • Ibn Taymiyya's Response
  • Modern Muslim Critiques of Christianity, Law, and Secularism
  • That Hideous Schizophrenia: Christianity in the Thought of Sayyid Quṭb
  • A Traditional Islamic 'Ulamā Critique of Secularism: Syed Naquib al-Attas
  • Law in Muslim-Christian Dialogue: The Case of Seyyed Nasr
  • Conclusion: From Interfaith Listening to Constructive Christian Engagement
  • 4 The Difficulty with Distinctions: Justin Martyr, Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther on Law
  • The Place of the Law in the New Testament
  • An Early Christian Case Study: Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho
  • A Brief Excursus on Justinian Corpus Iuris Civilis
  • Medieval Case Study: Thomas Aquinas
  • The Eternal and Natural Law
  • Human Law
  • The Need for Divine Law
  • Old Law
  • New Law
  • Human Law after the New Law?
  • Reformation Case Study: Martin Luther
  • The Distinction between the Law and the Gospel
  • The Mosaic Law
  • The Political Use of the Law and the Two Kingdoms
  • The Standards for Participation in the Political Use of the Law
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Building a Christological Legal Foundation: A Comparative Political Theology after Karl Barth
  • A Qur'ānic Prelude
  • The Problem of Barth on Islam and Politics
  • Engaging Karl Barth's Political Theology
  • Gospel and Law
  • A Jewish-Christian Interlude
  • Rechtfertigung und Recht