Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love - David L. Johnston
Justice and Love: Christian Perspectives
Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love - David L. Johnston
David L. Johnston [+]
Fuller Theological Seminary
David L. Johnston is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, and teaches at St Joseph's University. He is the author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text: Muslims and Christians as Trustees of Creation (Equinox, 2010) and translator of Rachid Ghannouchi’s al-Hurriyat al-‘amma fi-l-dawla al-islamiyya (The Public Freedoms in the Islamic State) in the series World Thought in Translation (Yale University Press).
Description
This chapter, beginning with a case-study of Islamophobia in the United States, offers Wolterstorff’s bringing together of justice and love from a Christian perspective. It ends with an intriguing dialogue on the crucifixion by law professor David Skeel and Muslim scholar Mahmoud Ayoub.