The Issue of Truth as it Arises from the Praxis of Scriptural Reasoning

2012 ◽  
pp. 197-213
Keyword(s):  
Scriptural Reasoning

Using Hevruta to Do and Teach Comparative Theology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devorah Schoenfeld ◽  
Jeanine Diller
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Method ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Scriptural Reasoning ◽  
Methods Of Learning ◽  
Classroom Use

The traditional method of study known as hevruta is the foundation of traditional Jewish methods of learning as practiced in the yeshiva. This method has been articulated as Scriptural Reasoning in a way that emphasizes the practice of engaged reflection on a text. In this chapter, the authors will attempt a different articulation based on the use of this method in their classrooms, an approach that emphasizes disagreement. When disagreement is placed at the center of the process, the hevruta method becomes a tool for encountering and learning from religious difference. The chapter provides an overview of and rationale for using hevruta, a treatment of learning objectives, suggested steps for classroom use, sample questions, and a discussion of hevruta and comparative theology.

PHILOSOPHIC WARRANTS FOR SCRIPTURAL REASONING

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER OCHS
Keyword(s):  
Scriptural Reasoning

God and Our Public Life: A Scriptural Wisdom

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
David Ford
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Scriptural Reasoning ◽  
Exemplary Practice

AbstractThis article recognises both the need for wisdom for the flourishing of public life and the value of the contribution that Christian wisdom, founded on Scripture, has to offer. However, this article also notes that the contemporary world is a complexly religious and secular environment, and hence if Christian wisdom is to realise its potential, there is a need for the creation and nurture of attitudes, groups and institutions within which fruitful dialogue between faiths and ideologies in public life can occur. The article observes that Britain currently has a particular opportunity to work towards this kind of wisdom-embracing religious and secular society, and the practice of scriptural reasoning is explored as an exemplary practice that promotes the kind of inter-faith collegiality, collaboration and friendships that enhance public life. Finally, the article offers some brief reflections on Job and the role of wisdom in an authentic and biblical Christian faith.

Scriptural Reasoning: Its Anglican Origins, its Development, Practice and Significance

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Scriptural Reasoning ◽  
Development Practice

AbstractScriptural Reasoning is the study and discussion of Tanakh, Bible and Qur'an together, usually by Jews, Christians and Muslims. On its Christian side it has had strong Anglican participation since it began in the mid-1990s. This article recounts its origins and development (including its spread beyond the academy and to many countries, including China); offers guidelines for its practice; discusses four key publications that offer Anglican theological understandings of it; summarizes its significance; and proposes that it be practised more widely in the Anglican Communion. The article concludes with meditative and prophetic postscripts.

scholarly journals Comparative Theology and Scriptural Reasoning: A Muslim’s Approach to Interreligious Learning

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Betül Avcı
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Scriptural Reasoning ◽  
Transformative Journeys ◽  
Initial Results

In this paper, I examine Comparative Theology (CT) and Scriptural Reasoning (SR), two distinctive interreligious learning practices, in relation to each other. I propose that these practices, with respect to their dialogical features and transformative power, represent two of the most noteworthy current modes of interreligious dialogue. They achieve this by their ability to explicitly understand the “other.” This is also because they serve not only as tools in service of understanding in academic circles, but also as existentially/spiritually transformative journeys in the exotic/familiar land of the “other.” In respect to religious particularity and (un)translatability, I argue that both CT and SR have certain liberal and postliberal features, as neither of them yields to such standard taxonomies. Finally, I deal with Muslim engagement with CT and SR and present some initial results of my current comparative questioning/learning project. Consequently, I plan for this descriptive work to stand as a preliminary to, first, an SR session that focuses on some Qur’anic verses and biblical accounts with a probable progressivist view of history and, second, an in-depth study of the Islamic tradition in that light.

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