The contributors to this volume examine the interrelations between Judaism, Christianity and Islam from Antiquity to the early modern period with regard to the development of knowledge and scholarship. Central to their inquiry is how a theology of revelation could be articulated and legitimised within diverse epistemological orders.
With deliberate historical depth, the contributors to this volume analyse the interactions between Judaism, Christianity and Islam from Antiquity to the early modern period. At the centre lies the historical unfolding of systems of knowledge and science and the question of how a theology of revelation took shape within different epistemological orders. The contributors trace the development of the discursive capacity of theological speech under these conditions and analyse how religious truth claims were culturally, scientifically and institutionally justified. From an interdisciplinary perspective, they illuminate the encounters through which Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions met, challenged and enriched one another. They explore the contributions of selected poets, exegetes, missionaries, philosophers, theologians and early jurists of international law to interreligious dialogue and examine how the self-understanding of the representatives of Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions was shaped by different orders of knowledge, as well as how these orders influenced encounters with adherents of other faiths. The answers to these questions reveal the potential inherent in these orders of knowledge for processes of reciprocal learning and understanding - within and between the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and in relation to the secular knowledge of the time.
Table of contents:
Alexander Fidora/Matthias Lutz-Bachmann: Religionsdialoge und Systeme des Wissens und der Wissenschaften - Eine Einleitung -
Matthias Lutz-Bachmann: Machtpolitik und Religion. Der Streit um den Victoria-Altar in der kaiserzeitlichen Spätantike und seine Implikationen für ein Konzept des „Dialogs der Religionen" -
Hartmut Leppin: Religionsgespräche vor spätantiken Machthabern -
Georges Tamer: Identitätsstiftende Diskurse im Koran -
Jörn Müller: The Christian Faith at the Tribunal of Human Reason. A Philosophical Reading of Gilbert Crispin's Disputatio Christiani cum Gentili -
Lydia Schumacher: Divine Power and Possible Worlds in Early Franciscan Thought: A Study in the Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics -
Katja Krause: Albertus Magnus im Religionsdialog mit Moses Maimonides? Zur Ordnung von Philosophie und Theologie -
Markus Enders: Die zweifache Weise der einen Wahrheit über Gott - die Wahrheit des Wissens und die Wahrheit des Glaubens. Die methodologischen Grundsätze der philosophischen Glaubensapologetik des Thomas von Aquin gegenüber dem Islam und ihre wissenschaftstheoretische Grundlegung in der Summa contra gentiles -
Sita Steckel: Henry of Ghent and the Prophet's Prohibition of Debate. On Inter-Religious Polemic in Intra-Christian Controversies -
Elisabeth Hollender: Der „hebräische Dante": Jüdisches Wissen in „terza rima" -
Alexander Fidora: Zum Religionsgespräch verpflichtet? Überlegungen zu umstrittenen Voraussetzungen iberischer Missionierungsversuche im 13. und 16. Jahrhundert -
Ömer Özsoy: Der koranische Diskurs als Polylog: Zur Deutung der ambivalenten Rezeption biblischer Traditionen im Koran -
Yossef Schwartz: Inter-Cultural Tensions of Jewish Civilization and the Political Theologies of Jewish Orientalism
