Contemporary Arabic Christian Theology: An Introduction to Its Identity, History, and Trends of Reasoning - Couverture souple

Awad, Najib George

 
9798889838692: Contemporary Arabic Christian Theology: An Introduction to Its Identity, History, and Trends of Reasoning

Synopsis

This long-awaited monograph looks at the trends of theological reasoning and discourses which the Arab-speaking Christians develop in their contemporary living context. Some of the questions the book tackles are: How do the present Arabophone Christians relate their Christianity to their living indigenous context in the Middle East? How do they perceive their Christian identity in relation to their Muslim-majority context, and how do they perceive who they are in the light of the socio-political, cultural, interreligious, and contextual challenges and components of the broader Muslim-majority context they exist in? How are the Arabophone Christians' theological discourses similar to and different from other Christian religious and theological discourses at other parts of the world? What makes these Christian theological discourses 'Arab' and 'Middle Eastern' in their content, methodologies, perspectives, interpretations, and syntheses? What are the determining characteristics of these Arabophones' theological hermeneutics of life-conditions and challenges, and what are these characteristics' positive and negative ramifications and implications?

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À propos de l?auteur

Najib George Awad is associate professor of Christian theology and director of the International Ph.D. program at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. He is currently completing his habilitationsschrift in Arabic theology and early Christian-Muslim Kalam at the University of Marburgin Germany. He is the author of God without a Face?(2011), And Freedom Became a Public-Square (2012), and a forthcoming volume on Theodore Abu QurrahtitledOrthodoxy in Arabic Terms(2015).

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