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Teaching Humanity: The Human Being as the Object and Means of Revelation in Islamic Piety
This chapter explores human beings (insan) and the concept of humanity (insaniyya) as they are encountered in the Qurʾan. It focuses on the way the...
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Introducing Jeepney Hermeneutics: Reading the Bible as Canaanites
This chapter is a “reading in front of texts” by a Filipino of pericopes from Matthew’s Gospel. It aims to show how Filipino perspectives generated...
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Encoded Language as Mystical Revelation Among the Bāuls of West Bengal
This chapter addresses the use of mystical language among the Bāul minstrels of West Bengal, India. Bāul singers formed a unique philosophical...
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America, the New Jerusalem, and Anti-immigrant Discourse
For many Christians, the Book of Revelation provides hope and the promise of ultimate refuge and rest. Yet the book undeniably reaches its...
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Reading the Signs of the Times: Nature-Culture Dualism and Human Feeling in the Anthropocene
Considering growing accounts of grief, anger and anxiety in response to climate change and ecological collapse, Malcolm offers a theological reading...
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Revelation and the Nature of the Qur’an
This chapter analyses Nursi’s views on revelation and the nature of the Qur’an in the context of the modern approaches. The notion of revelation and...
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A Radical Theology of Conflict and Contestation
In radical thinking, things are never as settled as they seem. Underneath the appearance of continuity lie ruptures and interruptions, underneath...
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A Literary Reception of Karl Barth’s Römerbrief: On Barthianism in John Updike’s Roger’s Version
American author John Hoyer Updike (1932–2009) once said, “Karl Barth was my hero among theologians.” Updike found Barth’s early writings from Der...
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A Simple Way to Invoke: Seeing the Ubiquity of Christ Through a Mystagogical Look Behind the Veil of Covid-19
In this article, I propose that among the many issues unveiled by COVID-19, the collective response to worship restrictions revealed the way that...
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Natural Law and the American Founding
Natural law maintains that human conduct is subject to eternal and unchanging moral laws. These moral laws originate, not in human legislation, but...
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Marriage in Sharī‘a and Ḥaqīqa: Mystical Marriage in the Thought of Maḥmūd Muḥammad Ṭāhā
This chapter focuses on the twentieth-century Sudanese reformist Maḥmūd Muḥammad Ṭāhā (1909–1985), examining his views on marriage in the Ṣūfı̄...
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The Joy of Ordinary Living
The Book of Psalms takes us on a true-to-life journey through the vicissitudes of human existence; anguish and grievances intersperse with moments of...
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The Weavings of Ancestral Spiritualities in Indian/Indigenous Theologies as Paths to Liberation
The text presents ancestral wisdoms and spiritualities, which are intertwined with each other, forming a living fabric of reciprocal relationships...
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Religion and the State: A Catholic View
Although it recognizes and honors the truths taught by other religions, the Catholic Church understands itself to be the Church established by Christ...
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Islam’s Diverse Paths, Part One: Patterns of Belief
This chapter provides a brief introduction to the study of Islam that takes as its starting point the religion’s inherent pluralism and diversity. It...
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Does Religious Self-Understanding Impede Interreligious Dialogue?
In chapter five, I first respond to my critic’s query whether it is logically possible to say that mutual understanding is the primary aim of...
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Like a Bee to Nectar: Abhinavagupta’s Poetics of Religious Formation
Through a study of Abhinavagupta’s deployment of the metaphor of a bee in search of nectar, this article reconstructs a model of religious education...
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Triumphalist Temptations and the Sinfulness of the Church
This chapter sheds light on the ambiguous paragraph 4 of Unitatis Redintegratio regarding the possible triumphalist claim that all divinely revealed...
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Biography, Context, and Substance in Interplay
The chapter begins by identifying the specificity of the Turkish context in terms of particular balances of historical and contemporary forces in...
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Beyond Missio Dei: Theological Resources for the Journey
Messianic hope is not a goal-oriented slog, but a staunch summoning of reflexivity, and remaining eminently open to a future that would defy and...