Law and the Rule of God
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Law and the Rule of God

A Christian Engagement with Shari'a

Joshua Ralston

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Law and the Rule of God

A Christian Engagement with Shari'a

Joshua Ralston

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Shar?'ais one of the most hotly contested and misunderstood concepts and practices in the world today.Debates about Islamic law and its relationship to secularism and Christianity have dominated political and theological discourse for centuries. Unfortunately, Western Christian theologians have failed to engage sufficiently with the challenges and questions raised by Islamic political theology, preferring instead to essentialize or dismiss it.InLaw and the Rule ofGod, Joshua Ralston presents an innovative approach to Christian-Muslim dialogue. Eschewing both polemics and apologetics, he proposes a comparative framework for Christian engagement with Islamic debates onshar?'a. Ralston draws on a diverse range of thinkers from both traditions including Karl Barth, Ibn Taymiyya, Thomas Aquinas, and Mohammad al-Jabri. He offers an account of public law as a provisional and indirect witness to the divine rule of justice. He also demonstrates how this theology of public law deeply resonates with the Christian tradition and is also open to learning from and dialoguing with Islamic and secular conceptions of law, sovereignty, and justice.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781108805032
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Theology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Notes on Transliteration and Texts
  10. 1 Christian Political Theology as Comparative Theology
  11. 2 Neither Conciliation nor Confrontation: A Comparative Approach to Sharī'a and Islamic Jurisprudence
  12. 3 ''That Hideous Schizophrenia'': A Genealogy of Muslim Critiques of Christian Theologies of the Law
  13. 4 The Difficulty with Distinctions: Justin Martyr, Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther on Law
  14. 5 Building a Christological Legal Foundation: A Comparative Political Theology after Karl Barth
  15. 6 The Witness of the Law in Comparative Perspective
  16. Conclusion: Toward a Comparative Theo-Legal Discourse
  17. Select Bibliography
  18. Index
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APA 6 Citation

Ralston, J. (2020). Law and the Rule of God ([edition unavailable]). Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/4223301 (Original work published 2020)

Chicago Citation

Ralston, Joshua. (2020) 2020. Law and the Rule of God. [Edition unavailable]. Cambridge University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/4223301.

Harvard Citation

Ralston, J. (2020) Law and the Rule of God. [edition unavailable]. Cambridge University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/4223301 (Accessed: 25 June 2024).

MLA 7 Citation

Ralston, Joshua. Law and the Rule of God. [edition unavailable]. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Web. 25 June 2024.