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Table of contents :
Jesus and the Cross
Series Editors
Jesus and the Cross
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
The Cross in the Scriptures
Ecce, Agnus Dei: The Cross in The Old Testament
The Prophetic Response to Suffering
The Cross in the Gospels
The Cross and Power: Parting of Ways
Reflections from Contexts
Early Discourse
Denying the Cross in Early Muslim Dialogues with Christians
Debating the Cross in Early Christian Dialogues with Muslims
Reflections from Selected Regions
The Gospel in Afghan Pashto Poetry, Proverbs and Folklore
An Islamic ‘Good Friday’: Celebrating the Feast of Sacrifice in Indonesia
The Cross and Reconciliation in Palestine
The Cross and ‘Outreach’ Literature in East Africa
A Girardian Reading and Response to Communal Violence in India
A Pakistani Christian’s Perspective on the Cross
The Cross in the Egyptian ‘Church of the Martyrs’
Prophethood and the Cross
Theological Reflections
Cross-Reference Theology: Speaking, thinking and living the cross in the context of Islam
God, the Beneficent-the Merciful, and Jesus’s Cross: From abstract to concrete theologising
A Christian Response to the Absence of the Cross in Islam
The Qur’an and the Cross – Less Absent than you Think
Christology in an Alternative Islamic Theological Structure
Bibliography
Index of Names and Places
Index of Scriptural References
About the Editor

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Jesus and the Cross Reflections of Christians from Islamic Contexts

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