{"product_id":"the-monotheists-jews-christians-and-muslims-in-conflict-and-competition-volume-2-the-words-and-will-of-god-9780691123738","title":"The Monotheists  Jews Christians and Muslims in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. This book is a comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions. It tells the story of the foundation and formation of the three monotheistic communities, of their historical presence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2003 Award for Best Professional\/Scholarly Book in Religion, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004 \"[A] titanic undertaking... The Monotheists is not exceptional for [its] detachment alone, or for its erudition, or even for its originality. It is exceptional because Peters has created a new genre for it.\"--Jack Miles, Los Angeles Times \"Historian Peters has long been an astute and objective chronicler of the history and beliefs of the three great monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In this sprawling, majestic and elegant narrative, he offers the best study we presently have of the ways, words and wisdom of these religions [with] straightforward prose and evenhanded examination... Peters's magnificent book is the new place to turn for a first-rate historical introduction to these three religions.\"--Publishers Weekly (starred review) \"There is no more informative, accessible and comprehensive guide to the beliefs and practices of the three great monotheistic religions than these two volumes... Peters has a great story to tell, and he tells it very well. He writes with extraordinary clarity and evenhandedness... He treats thousands of complex and sensitive topics with meticulous learning without offending or proselytizing. Moreover, he manages to keep the three narratives--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--going at once, and allows readers both to appreciate the distinctive character of each and to see how their stories have very frequently intertwined.\"--Daniel J. Harrington, America \"Peters has done it again. With these two volumes he has created an excellent and timely resource for understanding the similarities and differences between the three monotheistic traditions of the West.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xvii  Introduction xxi  1. THE SCRIPTURES: BIBLE, NEW TESTAMENT, AND QURAN  Three Sacred Books 2  People of the Book 3  The Bible 4  Sacred Tongues 5  On Translations 7  Scriptural Criticism 8  Who Wrote the Bible? 10  Explaining Revelation 11  High Prophetology 14  Heavenly Books 15  The New Testament: Notion, Text, and Canon 16  The Biblical Canon 18  The Inspiration of Scripture 20  Contingency and the Constraints of History 21  Humanist Critics of Scripture 23  The Old Testament and the New 24  The Arrangement of the Quran 25  The Composition of the Quran 27  The Editing of the Quran 29  The Collection of the Quran 30  Qere and Ketib 32  Interpolation and Abrogation 33  Closure 34  2. UNDERSTANDING THE WORD OF GOD  The Seal and the Silence 35  Biblical Exegesis 36  Midrash 37  An Unfolding Tradition 38  Philo Rereads Scripture 40  Evangelical Exegesis 41  The Senses of Scripture 42  Marcion Reads the Scripture 43  Why Don't We Understand?44  Fathers and Other Authorities 45  The Glossa Ordinaria, Christian and Jewish 46  The Quran Reads the Bible 46  Quranic Ambiguities 48  The \"Occasions of Revelation\" 49  Tabari Enthroned 50  Plain and Allegorical Exegesis in Islam 51  The Muslims Struggle with Revelation and Reason 52  Shiite Tafsir 54  Learning from the Muslims 55  Two Medieval Jewish Commentators: Ibn Ezra and Rashi 56  The Great Debates 57  The Reform of Christian Exegesis 60  Control of the Book 61  A Closer, and Different, Look at Scripture 62  Exegesis and Hermeneutics 63  3. SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION  The Great Tradition 65  Rabbinic Judaism 66  \"How Many Torahs Do You Have?\" 68  Making the Mishnah 69  Mishnah and Gemara 70  Validating the Rabbis 71  Attacking the Tradition: Sadducees and Karaites 71  Jewish Reform 73  The Beginnings of a Christian Tradition 74  The Deposit of Faith 74  Apostolic Tradition and Apostolic Succession 75  Sola Scriptura 76  The Tradition Debate 78  The War of the Historians 79  The Sunna of the Prophet 80  Hadith Criticism 82  The Canonical Collections 83  Quran and Sunna 84  The Shiite Hadith 85  4. GOD'S LAW AND ITS OBSERVANCE  Purity and Defilement 87  Biblical Law 88  The Lesson of Qumran 89  The Tradition from the Fathers 90  The Mishnah and the Two Talmuds 91  Two Jewish Codes: Mishneh Torah and Shulkhan Aruk 92  The Purpose of the Law 94  The Administration of Jewish Law 94  The Rabbis 95  The Instruments of God's Justice 96  Jesus and the Law 96  Christians and the Law 97  A Law for Christians 98  The Sources of Christian Law 99  The Codification of Church Law 101  The Beginnings of Western Canon Law 101  Gratian 102  Catechesis and Catechism 103  An Islamic Catechism: The Pillars of Islam 105  Sharia, the Muslim Way 106  From Prophetic Tradition to Law 108  The Administration of Justice in Islam 109  The Qadi 110  The Qadi's Justice 111  Responsa and Fatwas: The Mufti 112  The Qadi and the Mufti 113  The Schools 114  Shiite Law 115  Ijtihad 116  The Closing of the Gate 117  The Hierarchization of the Ulama 118  Ijtihad Unchained 120  Customary Law and Governance in Islam 121  Qanun: The Sultan's Law 122  Jewish Rabbis and Islamic Ulama 123  5. GOD'S COMMANDMENTS AND HUMAN MORALITY  Values and Value Systems 127  Whence Evil?129  The Diabolic, the Demonic 130  The Jinn, Shaytan, and Iblis 132  Sin and Atonement in Israel 133  Acquittal 134  Jesus' Moral Teaching 135  Pauline Morality 136  Original Sin 137  Manichaeism 138  Augustine as Moralist 139  Augustine and Pelagius 140  Penance and the Sacramental System 141  Purgatory and Indulgences 143  Who Will Be Saved? 145  The Absolute Will of God 146  The Disputed Question of Nature and Grace 147  Justification 148  Doubly Saved and Doubly Damned 149  The Council of Trent on Justification 150  The Magisterium Restored 151  A Conference on \"Aids\" 152  The Crisis in Catholic Morality 153  Jansenism 155  From Pascal to Alfonso di Ligouri 157  Muhammad as Moral Exemplar 158  Islamic Morality 160  Free Will and Predestination in Islam 162  A Rationalist Solution 163  Acquiring Responsibility 164  Consensus on Matters Moral 165  6. DIVINE WORSHIP  Shekinah\/Sakina 168  Sacrifice 169  The Jesus Sacrifice 170  The Jewish Priesthood 171  The Synagogue 172  The Eucharist 174  Liturgies Eastern and Western 175  Eucharistic Issues: Who, When, and How? 177  The Reform Liturgy 178  Christmas 178  Muslim Prayer 179  Friday Prayer and the Mosque 180  The Hajj 180  Intercalation Prohibited 183  The Enshrinement of Jerusalem 184  Christian Pilgrimage 185  The Western Wall 187  Popular Devotions in Christianity 188  The Cult of Mary 189  From Piety to Dogma: An Immaculate Conception and Prophetic Impeccability 190  The Veneration of the Saints 192  Canonization 193  Eucharistic Devotions 194  Popular Devotions in Islam 195  The Friends of God 197  Three Dramatic Narratives: Passover, Passion, and the Death of Husayn 198  Idols and Images 200  Emperor Portrayal, Christian Style 202  Christian Images 203  Christian Iconoclasm 204  Stripping the Altars: Images and the Reform 206  Islam and the Graven Image 207  The Word as Decoration 208  7. THINKING ABOUT GOD  Mythos and Logos 211  The Theology of Philo of Alexandria 213  Athens and Jerusalem 215  Theology and Creeds: Nicaea to Chalcedon 217  The Muslims Encounter Aristotle 219  Falsafa 220  Talking about God: The Muslim Beginnings 222  Learning to Speak Dialectically 223  An Islamic Inquisition 225  Kalam Matured 226  Muslim Creeds 228  Reason and Revelation in Islam 230  God Supreme: Islamic Occasionalism 232  Ibn Rushd 233  The Voice of Conservative Islamic Orthodoxy 235  Jewish Kalam 236  A Guide for the Perplexed 237  Falsafa and Kalam 238  Received Wisdom 238  Sacred Theology, Western Style 240  Thomas Aquinas 241  Scholasticism 242  Latin Averroism 244  The Two Faces of Truth 244  The Reformation and Christian Systematic Theology 246  The Wisdom of Illumination 247  The School of Isfahan 249  8. FROM DESERT SAINTS TO MUSLIM SUFIS  The Way of the World 251  The Issue of Jewish Asceticism 252  The Desert a City 254  Obedience of the Spirit 255  The Saints in the City 256  The Rule of St. Basil 257  Benedict and the Benedictines 258  Benedictine Experiments: Carthusians and Cistercians 260  Canons Regular and Other 261  The Mendicant Friars: Franciscans and Dominicans 262  Is Perfection Possible? The Franciscan Controversy 265  Military Orders, Christian and Muslim 267  The Rise and Fall of the Society of Jesus 270  The Holy Mountain 273  The Personal Life of Muhammad 274  This World and the Next 275  The Beginnings of Muslim Asceticism 276  Sufi Convents: Khanqah, Ribat, Zawiya 278  The Sufi Orders 279  Sufis in the Service of Islam: Chishtis and Bektashis 282  The Chinese Rites 284  Christian and Muslim Religious Orders 285  Suppression 286  Jewish Brotherhoods in Galilee 287  Saints without Rules: The Hasidim 288  The Apostolic Succession in Eastern Europe 290  The Habad 291  9. LEAPING FROM THE DARK INTO THE LIGHT: MYSTICISM  Face to Face with God 293  The Beginnings 294  The Adepts of Qumran 295  The Celestial Chariot 295  \"Four Who Attempted to Enter Paradise\" 296  God's Love, God's Body 297  The Palaces 297  The Book of Creation 298  From Christian Asceticism to Mysticism 299  Approaching the Unknowable 301  The Jesus Prayer 302  Hesychasm 303  God's Energies and God's Essence 305  Spirituality, Eastern and Western 306  The Spiritual Exercises 306  Muhammad Cleansed, and Rapt 308  Did Muhammad See God? 309  The Sufi as Mystic 310  The Growth of Sufi Theory 311  Sufism and Gnosticism 313  Sufis and Shiites 314  Al-Hallaj 315  The Sufi Way 317  Practical Sufism 318  Spiritual Hierarchies 320  The Apotheosis of Ali: The Alawis 320  The Fathers of Islamic Theosophy: Ibn Sina and Suhrawardi 321  Defender of the Faith 324  Making Sufism Safe for Islam 326  Spiritual Resurrection 327  On the Edge: Ibn Arabi 327  The Seal of the Saints 329  The Teaching and Its Opponents 330  The Beginnings of Kabbalah 333  The Zohar 334  The World of the Sefiroth 335  Isaac Luria 336  Kabbalah for Everyone: Hasidism 337  10. THE LAST THINGS  End Time Scenarios 339  After Death, What? 341  Death and Judgment 342  The Particular Judgment 343  The Resurrection of the Body 343  The Seed, the Statue, and the Conjunction of Materia and Forma 345  In the Meantime ... 346  The Cosmology of the Other World 347  Mapping Paradise and Hell 349  A Heavenly Journey 350  Living High: The Angels 351  Angels in Arabia 353  The Vision of God 354  With a Little Help from the Creator 355  Paradise Lost: Maimonides (and Others) on the World to Come 356  Salvation 358  Religious Zionism: Hurrying the End 359  Political Zionism and Eretz Israel 360  The Birth Pangs of the Messiah 362  Realized and Futurist Eschatology in Christianity 363  A Christian Apocalypse 364  Millennialism\/Chilianism 365  The Reign of the Spirit: Joachim de Fiore 366  Abraham the Intercessor 368  The Muslim Dead 369  The Quranic Eschaton 371  Intercession in Islam 371  A Savior Returns 372  The Mahdi 375  END THOUGHTS  People of the Book, and of the Covenant 377  Odium Theologicum 377  The Religion of Abraham 378  Who Is the Heir? 379  The True Israel 380  A Fractious Family 381  The Rivals' Charms 383  Faith and History 384  Index 387","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403739210071,"sku":"9780691123738","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691123738.jpg?v=1730484405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-monotheists-jews-christians-and-muslims-in-conflict-and-competition-volume-2-the-words-and-will-of-god-9780691123738","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}