Describing God?: Christian and Muslim Approaches to the Divine Attributes in Dialogue

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This volume engages traditional and contemporary approaches to the Divine attributes in Christian-Muslim dialogue. A particular focus lies on the attributes of omnipotence and omniscience, justice and mercy, as well as simplicity and divine action. Engaging these attributes comparatively, two questions are posed: How can these attributes be conceived today, and to what extent is a mutual learning across religious traditions possible? Thereby, a special focus is placed on the role of analytic philosophy. How do the philosopical ‘language games‘ used contribute to communicability across religions? Front cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction Part I Omnipotence and Omniscience Ibn Sīnā’s Conception of Divine Omniscience On God’s Eternal Knowledge and the Problem of the Efficacy of Petitionary Prayers Does God Know What Time It Is? Divine Knowledge in Classical Shī‘ī Theology: Divine Knowledge of Particulars and of the Present Time Part II Justice and Mercy Justice and Mercy as a Paradoxical Task? The Perspectives of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Paul Ricoe Human Suffering and the Riddle of Divine Goodness: Answers from the Book of Job “Theodicy in a Vale of Tears”: Towards an Islamic Theodicy of Protest Part III Divine Simplicity and Divine Action Al-Ghazālī Against al-Falāsifa (the Philosophers) on Divine Simplicity Divine Simplicity and Divine Action Divine Perfection and the Reality of God’s Self-Disclosure: Are Mixed Relations Mixed Up? Mullā Ṣadrā on God’s Simplicity Divine Attributes as a Subject of Comparative Theology: Conclusions Bibliography Contributors Back Cover