Transformative Readings of Sacred Scriptures

Christians and Muslims in Dialogue

edited by Simone Sinn, Dina El Omari and Anne Hege Grung

Book cover: Transformative Readings of Sacred Scriptures

Extent: 200 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies

Series: LWF Documentation

Series volume number: 62

Language: English

Paperback (Out of stock indefinitely)

(December 2017)

ISBN: 9783374054305

Price: $25.00

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The interpretation of sacred scriptures engenders vivid debates in religious communities, both at the scholarly and grass-roots levels. Issues of debate are the hermeneutical assumptions, the methods of interpretation, and the constructive and harmful implications of certain readings. For Christian and Muslim communities, themes related to God’s grace, violence, gender relations and ecology, are topical. As scholars from different contexts and faith backgrounds together interpret sacred texts they gain fresh insights into their meaning and their transformative dynamics. Essays by authors with expertise in scriptural interpretation, religious studies, pastoral care, philosophical theology, gender studies and pedagogy explore Christian and Muslim perspectives on scriptural interpretation, and discuss how to understand how God communicates with the world today.

  • Edited by Dina El Omari
  • Edited by Anne Hege Grung
  • Edited by Simone Sinn