AmenAmen: Jews, Christians, and Muslims Keep Faith with God examines faith as it is understood by Jews, Christians and Muslims; it does not aim to be a work of systematic theology or a lengthy explication of the contents of different faith traditions. It offers Jews, Christians and Muslims several approaches to faith as a category of human experience open to God: a faithful God who reaches out to grasp the faithful human being at the same time that the faithful human being reaches out to grasp a faithful God. This two-sided faith, divine and human, lies at the center of each faith tradition. The book examines faith as one might examine a gem, gazing at different facets in turn. |
Contents
Introduction A Long Letter Begun | 1 |
1 Faith as a Response to Covenant | 19 |
A Father in Faith | 44 |
Rejection Accommodation and Integration | 78 |
4 Prophetic Faith Repentance and the Development of Tradition | 120 |
Hopes and Fears | 156 |
The Faith of Pilgrims | 179 |
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