Rationalization in Religions

Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Yohanan Friedmann, Christoph Markschies, Yohanan Friedmann, Christoph Markschies

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9783110736595
• eBook ISBN: 9783110437348
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Rationalism in Philosophy

Current tendencies in religious studies and theology show a growing interest for the interchange between religions and the cultures of rationalization surrounding them. The studies published in this volume, based on the international conferences of both the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, aim to contribute to this field of interest by dealing with concepts and influences of rationalization in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and religion in general. In addition to taking a closer look at the immediate links in the history of tradition between those rationalizing movements and evolutions in religion, emphasis is put on intellectual-historical convergences: Therefore, the articles are led by central comparative questions, such as what factors foster/hinder rationalization?; where are criteria for rationalization drawn from?; in which institutions is rationalization taking place?; who propagates, supports and utilizes rationalization?

Index

Places

• Abū Qubays, Mount 1
• Abyssinia 1 n.2
• Africa (Afrika) 1
• Al-Andalus 1 f., 2 f.
• Alexandria 1, 2, 3 f., 4, 5 n.6, 7
• Antioch 1, 2
• Arabia 1 f., 2
• Asia (Asien) 1, 2
• Asia Minor (Kleinasien) 1
• Athens 1
• Baghdad 1 n.2, 3, 4, 5
• al-Baṭḥāʾ 1
• Berlin 1 f., 2
• Bethzatha 1
• Byzantine Empire 1
• Byzantium 1 n.2
• Caesarea 1, 2
• Cairo 1, 2, 3 n.4
• Central Europe 1
• Chalcedon 1 f.
• China 1
• Constantinople 1
• Damascus 1, 2, 3, 4 n.5, 6 n.7, 8 f.
• Dresden 1
• Dublin 1
• Edessa 1
• Egypt 1, 2
• Ephesus 1 n.2, 3
• Europe (Europa) 1, 2, 3 f., 4, 5, 6
• France 1
• Germany (Deutschland) 1, 2, 3
• Gibraltar, Straits of 1
• Greece (Griechenland) 1, 2 n.3, 4
• Iberian Peninsula 1
• India 1, 2 n.3, 4 n.5, 6
• Iran 1, 2
• Iraq 1
• Israel (Land of Israel) 1, 2 n.3
• Italy 1
• Japan 1
• Jerusalem 1, 2, 3
• Jordan River 1
• Khorasan (Khurāsān) 1 n.2, 3
• Loretto 1
• Mecca 1, 2
• Nazareth 1
• Nisibis 1, 2
• Nīshāpūr 1, 2, 3 f.
• North Africa (Nordafrika) 1 n.2, 3 f.
• North America (Nordamerika) 1
• North Pole 1 n.2
• Orient 1, 2
• Pakistan 1 f.
• Palestine 1
• Paris 1
• Persia 1 n.2, 3 n.4
• Persian Empire 1
• Portugal 1
• Princeton 1
• Provence 1
• Prussia 1
• Qayrawān 1
• Rome 1 f., 2, 3, 4, 5
• Safed 1, 2
• Sinai 1
• South America (Südamerika) 1
• South Pole 1 n.2
• Spain 1 f., 2, 3
• Syria 1
• St. Catherine’s Monastery 1
• Tübingen 1, 2
• Western Europe (Westeuropa) 1
• Zurich 1

Names

• A
• Abaelard 1
• ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib 1
• ʿAbd al-Jabbār 1 f.
• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III, Caliph 1
• ˁAbdišōˁ 1
• Abrahamov, Binyamin 1
• Abū al-Hudhayl al-ʿAllāf 1, 2 f.
• Abū Bishr Mattā ibn Yūnus 1
• Abū Hurayra 1
• Abū Yaʿlā 1 n.2
• Abulafia, Abraham 1
• Ādurbād ī Ēmēdān 1
• Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius 1
• Aḥmad al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh 1
• al-Ājurrī, Abū Bakr 1, 2 f., 3
• Albertus Magnus 1 n.2
• Alemanno, Yohanan 1 n.2
• Alfonso X Sabio (the Wise) 1
• Allen, Pauline 1
• Ammonius Saccas 1
• Anastasius of Sinai 1, 2 f., 3
• Andreas of Samosata 1 n.2
• Anselm of Canterbury 1, 2 n.3
• Aphrahat 1, 2 n.3, 4 n.5, 6
• Apion 1
• Apollinarius of Laodicea 1 n.2, 3 f., 4 n.5, 6 f., 7 n.8
• Aristeas 1
• Aristobulus 1 f.
• Aristotle (Aristoteles) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 n.6, 7 f.
• al-Ashʿarī, Abu ʿl-Ḥasan 1, 2, 3 f., 4, 5
• Athanasius 1
• al-Atharī, Zuhayr 1 f.
• Augustine (Augustinus) 1 n.2, 3, 4, 5, 6 n.7
• Austin, J.L. 1, 2
• Averroes – see Ibn Rushd
• B
• Bacon, Francis 1
• Basil of Caesarea 1, 2, 3
• al-Baṣrī, Shabīb ibn Shayba 1 f.
• Baur, Ferdinand Christian 1, 2, 3, 4 f.
• Benedict XIV, Pope 1
• Berner, Ulrich 1
• Biel, Gabriel 1
• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 1 n.2
• C
• Carlebach, Joseph 1 n.2
• Cascardi, Anthony J. 1 n.2
• Chrysippus 1
• Chrysostom, John 1, 2 f.
• Cicero 1 n.2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Clark, Stuart 1, 2
• Cleanthes 1 f.
• Clement of Alexandria 1, 2, 3
• Cohen, Hermann 1
• Constantine, Emperor 1
• Cook, Michael 1
• Cordovero, Moses 1, 2 n.3
• Crouzel, Henri 1
• Cyril of Alexandria 1, 2 f., 3 f.
• D
• al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim 1 f., 2
• al-Daqqāq, Abū ʿAlī 1
• al-Dārimī, ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd 1
• Darwin, Charles 1 n.2
• Daston, Lorraine 1
• Della Porta, Giambattista 1
• Delp, Alfred 1 n.2
• Delrio, Martin 1
• Descartes, René 1, 2, 3 f.
• al-Dhahabī, Shams al-Dīn 1, 2 n.3, 4 n.5, 6 f., 7 f., 8, 9, 10., 11
• Diodore...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: Rationalization in Religions
• Dualists against Monotheists: Zoroastrian Debates with Other Religions
• Philo’s Rationalization of Judaism
• Forms of Rationalization in Medieval Jewish Thought
• Origen of Alexandria: The Bible and Philosophical Rationality, or: Problems of Traditional Dualisms
• Theodore of Mopsuestia: Rationalizing Hermeneutics and Theology
• “I Trapped You with Guile”: Rationalizing Theology in Late Antiquity
• Rationalizing Visions in Early Modern Catholicism
• “They Shall Be All Taught of God”: Schleiermacher on Christianity and Protestantism
• Christian Theology as a Rationalization of Religion: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Research University
• Die Rationalität des Glaubens Über die wechselseitige Angewiesenheit von Glauben und Wissen
• Early Muslim and Jewish Kalām: The Enterprise of Reasoned Discourse
• On Divine Aboveness (al-Fawqiyya): The Development of Rationalized Ḥadīth-Based Argumentations in Islamic Theology
• Rationality and Rationalism in Islamic Mysticism: The Case of Ibn al- ʿArabī
• Quasi-Rational and Anti-Rational Elements in Radical Muslim Thought: The Case of Abū al-A ʿlā Mawdūdī
• Contributors to This Volume
• Index