EAN: 9783110681932

THE CONCEPT OF PEACE IN JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY AN...

The eighth volume of the series Key Concepts of Interreligious Discourses investigates the
roots of the concept of peace in Judaism  Christianity and Islam and its relevance for the
present time. Facing present violent conflicts waged and justified by religious ideas or
reasons  peace building prevails in current debates about religion and peace. Here the central
question is: How may traditional sources in religions help to put down the weapons and create a
society in which everyone can live safely without hostilities and the threat of violence? When
we take the Sacred Scriptures of Judaism  Christianity and Islam into consideration it becomes
obvious that the term peace and its equivalents in Hebrew  Greek and Arabic describe  at first
an ideal state based on the love   mercy of God to his creation. It is a divine gift that
brings inward peace to the individuum and outer peace resting upon justice and equality. One
main task of Jews  Christian and Muslims in the history is to find out how to bring down this
transcendent ideal upon earth. The volume presents the concept of peace in its different
aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism  Christianity and Islam. It unfolds
commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold
discourses about peace within these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge
about the specific understanding of peace in each one of these traditions  their
interdependencies and their relationship to secular world views.

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