New PDF release: Jesus and Jihad: Reclaiming the Prophetic Heart of

By Robert F. Shedinger

ISBN-10: 1498220215

ISBN-13: 9781498220217

ISBN-10: 1498220231

ISBN-13: 9781498220231

Few phrases encourage extra worry in american citizens nowadays than jihad. Its mere utterance inspires photos of vehicle bombs exploding in crowded mrkets; Boeing 737s crashing into tall constructions; and flag-burning, gun-toting bearded Arab males shouting, "allahu akbar" and "Death to America!" yet what if all our stereotypical pictures of jihad are unsuitable, and while rightly understood, jihad seems to be the proper lens during which to appreciate the existence and venture of Jesus?
Jesus and Jihad argues that during early Muslim assets jihad stood for the fight to rework a violent and unjust pre-Islamic society into one characterised by way of larger degrees of justice and peace. whilst rescued from his Christian pietistic misinterpretations, Jesus emerges as a hugely prophetic determine of resistance to the injustices approved by way of Roman imperial power.
As Muslims reengage an real knowing of jihad, and Christians, via a renewed realizing of jihad, meet the prophetic Jesus from whom they've got turn into estranged, a brand new period of Christian-Muslim cooperation within the fight opposed to injustice can turn into the norm, exchanging the present antipathy dividing those groups with a keenness to reclaim once more a prophetic center in carrier to a hurting world.

"Shedinger is at it back, making high-order conceptual mischief for the sake of interreligious knowledge. during this gem of a publication, he brilliantly argues that Jesus used to be a jihadi. Shedinger makes this provocative declare simply because he desires Christians to profit that 'jihad' is non secular and social fight opposed to each type of injustice. Shedinger exhibits that Christians desperately desire this Muslim knowledge to be able to be actually Christian. A must-read!"
--John J. Thatamanil, affiliate Professor of Theology and global Religions, Union Theological Seminary

"Robert Shedinger's Jesus and Jihad is a well timed and strong argument for interfaith unity so as to constructing a mature spirituality . . . Shedinger argues elegantly for a spirituality that's simply godly whilst it's the resource of suffering determinedly opposed to all kinds of injustice."
--Farid Esack, Professor within the research of Islam, Head of the dept of faith reviews, collage of Johannesburg

Robert F. Shedinger is Professor of faith at Luther university in Decorah, Iowa. He holds a PhD in non secular reviews from Temple college and is the writer of Radically Open (Cascade Books, 2012) and Was Jesus a Muslim? (2009). he's a common speaker in Islamic facilities within the usa and Canada.

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