Abraham's Children: Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (611 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300179375 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Tolerance is in all-too-short supply in our world. Most attempts to cultivate greater tolerance urge us to set aside our differences, including our religious differences, and focus on what unites us. Many people find it difficult if not impossible to do that. The authors in this collection, each one a leading member of one or another of the Abrahamic religions, take a strikingly different and fresh approach. Each one probes the resources of his or her own religion to make a case for tolerating one's fellow human beings even when one disagrees on important matters. Over and over I had the experience of scales falling off my eyes. It would be hard to exaggerate the importance and promise of these fascinating essays for advancing the cause of tolerance."—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Former president Jimmy Carter, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Indonesia’s first democratically elected president, Abdurrahman Wahid, and the other writers draw on their personal experiences and on the sacred writings that are central in their own religious lives. Offering a counterbalance to incendiary religious leaders who cite Holy Writ to justify intolerance and violence, the contributors reveal how tolerance and respect for believers in other faiths stand at the core of the Abrahamic traditions.. Scarcely any country in today's world can claim to be free of intolerance. Can devoted Jews, Christians, or Muslims remain true to their own fundamental beliefs and practices, yet also find paths toward liberty, tolerance, and respect for those of other faiths?In this vitally important book, fifteen influential practitioners of the Abrahamic religions address religious liberty and tolerance from the perspectives of their own faith traditions. Rather than relying on "pure reason," as secularists might prefer, the contributors celebrate religious traditions and find within them a way toward mutual peace, uncompromised liberty, and principled tolerance. Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland, Sudan, the Balkans, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and the Caucasus are just some of the areas of intractable conflict apparently inspired or exacerbated by religious differences
"Do Abrahamic faiths promote violence?" according to Responding customer. Most of us have only superficial, casual understanding of the world views of people outside our own faith tradition, yet we know that religious justification is used for the commission of all kinds of atrocities against others of different faiths. So we wonder "What is the underlying theology about tolerance vs violence in our own and other faith traditions?"The author has assembled a collection of es. Allah is not Almighty God Jennifer Allah the god of Islam is not Almighty God of the Jews and Christians.Islam is not a religion of Abraham. It is the religion of Allah, not Ilah .This is absolutely clear in Arabic, the Quran and Islamic law.In Arabic, the Qur'an and Sharia, Almighty God is Ilah and Allah is ‘the god’ in English.Therefore the Qur’an was named The Criterion, the criterion between good and evil.Qur&rsqu. There is a way beyond intolerance Kelly James Clark edited an interesting collection of essays and articles on liberty and tolerance in an age of religious conflicts: Abraham's Children. Why can't Jews, Muslims and Christians live in peace together since they believe in the same God? At least, that's the question former US president Jimmy Carter asks. Other contributors go deeper, from a Jewish point of view, based on Torah, Talmud an