A Theology of Gratitude: Christian and Muslim Perspectives
Mona Siddiqui · Nathanael Vette
Dec 2022 · Cambridge University Press
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233
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About this ebook
How, from a theological standpoint, should we make sense of gratitude? This rich interdisciplinary volume is the first concertedly to explore theologies of gratitude from both Christian and Muslim perspectives. While the available literature has tended to rhapsodize gratitude to God and others as both a virtue and an obligation, this book by contrast offers something new by detailing ways in which gratitude is complicated by inequality: even to the point of becoming a vice. Gratitude now emerges as something more than a virtue and other than merely transactional. It can be a burden, bringing about indebtedness and an imbalance of power; but it may also be a resonant source of reconciliation and belonging. Topics discussed cover the personal and political dimensions of gratitude, including such issues as justice, multiculturalism, racism, imperialism, grief, memory and hope. The book assembles, from different traditions, some of the leading theologians of our times.
About the author
Mona Siddiqui is Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh. In 2011 she was awarded an OBE for services to interfaith relations. She is the author of many celebrated titles in religion, including – most recently – Christians, Muslims and Jesus (Yale University Press, 2013), My Way (IB Tauris, 2014) and Human Struggle (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Nathanael Vette is Issachar Postdoctoral Fellow in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His first book, Writing with Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark, will be published by T&T Clark in 2022 in the Library of New Testament Studies series.
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