Naming God
Description
A fresh look at how Christians and Muslims speak of God
Naming God entails labeling the ineffable. And yet the Bible itself oscillates between denying that God can be named and describing how God shows Godself anyway.
In Naming God, the result of the 2021 Building Bridges Seminar-an international dialogue of Christian and Muslim scholars-the contributors examine the many ways Christians and Muslims refer to and describe God and the significance of naming God differently. This book provides guidance and materials that will benefit faith leaders as well as students and scholars of theology, dialogue theory, and conflict resolution. Nonspecialists will benefit from an entry-point into the theme of naming God, while specialists will be challenged to develop and deepen their thought on this important topic.
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Lucinda Mosher is director of the Master of Arts in Interreligious Studies and an affiliate of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. Concurrently, she is senior editor of the Journal of Interreligious Studies, founding president of Neighbor Faith Consultancy, and rapporteur of the Building Bridges Seminar. The author of six books, in addition to numerous chapters and journal articles, she is the editor or coeditor of nearly twenty titles?among them The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies (2022) and nine Building Bridges Seminar volumes.
Content
- Cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Participants
- Introduction
- Part One: Naming God in Scripture
- 1. Walking the Knife-Edge: Christian Scripture on Labeling the Ineffable
- 2. Bible Passages on Naming God: Selections for Dialogue
- 3. Calling God by His Names: The Subject and Object of "Naming God" in the Qur?an
- 4. Qur?an and Hadith on Naming God: Selections for Dialogue
- Part Two: Naming God in Theological Discourse
- 5. What's in a Name? A Christian Historical Perspective on Naming God
- 6. Christian Theological Discourse on Naming God: Selections for Dialogue
- 7. Commentaries on the Divine Names: Two Exemplars from the Islamic Tradition
- 8. Muslim Theological Discourse on Naming God: Selections for Dialogue
- Part Three: Naming God in Devotional Practice
- 9. Naming God in Christian Prayer and Worship: Its Impact on Spiritual Formation
- 10. Christian Devotional Literature on Naming God: Selections for Dialogue
- 11. A Matter of Theurgy: The Impact of Naming God in Muslim Devotional Practice
- 12. Muslim Devotional Literature on Naming God: Selections for Dialogue
- Part Four: Reflection
- 13. Conversations in Cyberspace: A Sampler from the Virtual Circle
- Subject Index
- Scriptural Citation Index
- About the Editor
