English translation copyright @1986 by William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., and Doubleday & Company, Inc.
摘要
There is a significant connection between ecumenism and world peace. Anyone who feels a sense of obligation toward the world community, who takes seriously the fragility of all human arrangements, who has glimpsed the possibilities of technical and human error, must know what is at stake here. He must know that the threat to peace and the need to regulate it have long since burst through the dimensions of the specific, reginoal conflict, and have become global political problems on which the survival of us all depends. The most fanatical, the cruelest political struggles are those that have been colored, inspired, and legitimized by religion. To say this is not to reduce all political conflicts to religious ones, but to take seriously the fact that religions share in the responsibility for bringing peace to our torn and warring world.
目次
Hans Küng: Toward Dialogue xiii En Route to a Global Ecumenical Consciousness xiii What Is Religion? xv Beyond Absolution and Relativesim xvii
A. ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY CHRONOLOGY 3 I. MUHAMMAD AND THE QUR'AN: PROPHECY AND REVELATION 5 1. Josef van Ess: Islamic Perspectives 5 A Bad Image and Its Consequences 5 Position in Time as a Standard of Value 6 Muhammad, an "Arabian Prophet" 7 Form and Content of the New Revelation 9 The Departure to Medina 11 Muhammad's Prphetic Identity 13 The Notion of Inspiration 14 The Miraculousness of the Qur'an 16 The Exaltation of the Prophet 17
2. Hans Küng: A Christian Response 19 From Ignorance Through Arrogance to Tolerance 20 Islam: A Way of Salvation? 22 Muhammad: A Prophet? 24 The Qur'an: God's Word? 28 Revelation Outside the Bible 29 Inspired Verbatim? 31 From Biblical Criticism to Qur'anic Criticism 33
II. SUNNITES AND SHI'TTES: THE STATE, LAW, AND RELIGION 37 1. Josef van Ess: Islamic Perspectives 37 A World-Historical Success--and Its Shortcomings 37 Differing Images of History 38 Law and the Administration of Power 41 Tradition and Legal Method 42 Theonomous Law, the Secular State, and the Individual Conscience 44 The Basic Commandments of Islam 46 The Meaning of the Commandments 48
2. Hans Küng: A Christian Response 50 An Ancient Religion in Modern Times 50 A Medieval Paradigm of Religion? 51 The Dilemma of Relevance and Identity 53 The Third Way: Religion in Secular Society 54 Efforts at Internal Islamic Reform 57 Can Islamic FUndamentalism Survive? 59 The Problem of a Religion of Law 62 God's Commandments--for Humanity's Sake 63 Efforts at an Intra-Islamic Critique of the Law 66
III. THE IMAGE OF GOD AND ISLAMIC MYSTICISM, THE IMAGE OF MAN AND SOCIETY 70
1. Josef van Ess: Islamic Perspectives 70 The Primacy of Monotheism 70 God as the Meciful Lord 71 The Concept of Love in Islamic Mysticism 72 Nature as the Mirror of Divine Power 74 Divine Power and Human Freedom 76 The Unity of Soul and Body in Man 78 The Community of Believers 79 Islamic Equality and Its Limits 80
2. Hans Küng: A Christian Response 83 Women in Islam 83 Common Feeatures of the Belief in One God 85 God's Activity and Human Freedom 87 Eternal Predestination and Eternal Life 89 Eros and Agape 90
