Research Catalog

Title

Who is my enemy? : questions American Christians must face about Islam--and themselves / Lee C. Camp.

Author

Camp, Lee C.

Publication

Grand Rapids, MI : Brazos, c2011.

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Description

xv, 174 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Christianity > United States
• Christianity and other religions > Islam
• Ethnic conflict > Religious aspects
• Islam > Christianity
• Islam > United States
• Political messianism > United States
• Violence > Christianity
• Violence > Islam

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-169) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Muslim enemy -- To seek to understand rather than to be understood -- Looking for New Testament Christianity -- The early church and the Jesus story -- The New Testament and the politics of Jesus -- The Qurʼan and the politics of Muhammad -- On the Christian, the Old Testament, and war -- The early Muslims and the Muhammad story -- The Constantine story and the Christian just war tradition -- Crusading for Christ -- The Cowboy Museum -- The Western tradition of terror -- Terrorism bin Laden style -- Taking stock -- Why "religion" is not (necessarily) the problem -- The Oklahoma bombing, and why America can never commit terrorist acts -- On the sign of Jonah, and the "clash of civilizations" thesis -- On Muslim hospitality -- Good Friday -- The Arab barbershop, changing neighborhoods, and other small exercises in courage.

ISBN

• 9781587432880 (pbk.)
• 1587432889 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011015452

OCLC

699760515

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library