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Who is Jesus for Muslims? | The Christian Century
2017年6月7日 · Zeki Saritoprak’s book Islam’s Jesus examines the role of Jesus in the Qur’an and in Islamic theology.He has written about many Islamic theologians, mystics, and scholars, including the 13th-century poet and Sufi mystic Rumi and the early 20th-century Turkish Muslim scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursî.
December 2024 | The Christian Century
Here are some books and other wordy presents the CC staff will be putting under the tree this year.
An even better Bible - The Christian Century
Last spring, the National Council of Churches commissioned the Society of Biblical Literature to lead a review and update of the New Revised Standard Version translation of the Bible. The new NRSV Updated Edition contains tens of thousands of changes, many of them substantive. The project was led by ...
The religious aspect of the Israel-Palestine conflict
2021年6月16日 · In mid-May, violence between Gaza and Israel intensified to levels not seen for years, with Hamas shooting hundreds of rockets toward the Tel Aviv area and Israel retaliating with heavy strikes in the Gaza Strip. On May 20, Israel and Hamas agreed...
Does the promise still hold? Israel and the land: An essay and ...
2009年1月13日 · How are Christians to understand this promise in the 21st century? We asked Gary Anderson to write an essay, and Walter Brueggeman, Marlin Jeschke and Donald E. Wagner to respond.Walter Brueggemann's responseMarlin Jeschke's responseDonald E....
The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.
2024年11月21日 · Bonhoeffer the movie, on the other hand, presents him as just this kind of moral agent who clearly recognizes good and evil, with the only real question being whether he has the stomach to do what he knows is right. By reducing moral deliberation to a question of will, the movie not only badly misreads Bonhoeffer. It also traffics in the dangerous idea of the Bonhoeffer moment, inviting its ...
Fuller inclusion (Mark 10:2-16) | The Christian Century
2024年10月4日 · To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. After hearing Jesus’ teaching on marriage, many churchgoers will be mindful that 2025 is the 10th anniversary of the Obergefell v.Hodges decision granting LGBTQ marriage equality in the ...
Recent Issues - The Christian Century
2024年10月1日 · Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.
Can a Jew be a Christian? The challenge of Messianic Judaism: The ...
2005年5月3日 · Can you be a practicing Jew and also believe that Jesus is the messiah? The customary answer is no. Though Christianity began as a Jewish sect, it quickly became an all-gentile affair. Indeed, Christians came to understand themselves as people who...