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| Preface | |
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| The Muslim Enemy | |
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| To Seek to Understand Rather Than to Be Understood | |
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| "Double Vision" | |
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| Double Vision at Ground Zero | |
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| "You Are Doing the Very Same Things" | |
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| Looking for New Testament Christianity | |
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| Restricted Vision | |
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| Listening to New Stories | |
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| The Early Church and the Jesus Story | |
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| The Early Church | |
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| Calls for Renewal | |
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| The New Testament and the Politics of Jesus | |
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| To Istanbul and Back | |
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| On the Meaning of Politics | |
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| A Thought Experiment: The New Testament as Political Manifesto | |
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| The Idolatry of the Nation-State | |
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| Why "Conservatives" Are "Liberals" in Sheep's Clothing | |
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| The Qur'an and the Politics of Muhammad | |
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| Basics of the Muhammad Story | |
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| An Important Development: Retaliation Permitted | |
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| Two Different Stories | |
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| The Narrative Logic of the Muhammad Story and the Jesus Story | |
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| What the Difference Is Not | |
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| Historical Outcomes as Theological Vindication | |
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| On the Christian, the Old Testament, and War | |
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| The Early Muslims and the Muhammad Story | |
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| The Classical Position on War in Islam | |
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| But Is It Really? | |
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| What to Make of the Parallels? | |
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| The Constantine Story and the Christian Just War Tradition | |
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| The Rise of Christian War-Making | |
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| The Logic and Criteria of the Just War Tradition | |
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| But Do We Care? | |
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| Crusading for Christ | |
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| Why the Crusades Are Not as Historically Irrelevant as We Might Think | |
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| Who Defines the "Justice" for Which War Is Rightly Waged? | |
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| The Cowboy Museum | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Our Christian Forebears upon the Eastern Shores | |
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| Our Christian Forebears beyond the Western Shores | |
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| The Western Tradition of Terror | |
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| On Possibly (but Perhaps Necessarily) Belaboring a Point | |
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| The Birth of "Total War" | |
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| "Total War" and the "Good War" | |
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| Terrorism bin Laden Style | |
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| On '"Moral Equivalency" | |
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| Bin Laden's "Moral Equivalency" | |
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| Bin Laden's Rationale for Targeting Civilians | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Why "Religion" Is Not (Necessarily) the problem | |
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| visiting Abraham's Burial place | |
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| The Myth of Religious Violence | |
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| America as Savior A Parable | |
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| The Oklahoma Bombing, and Why America Can Never Commit Terrorist Acts | |
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| Back in Oklahoma City | |
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| The Fight for America | |
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| Christian Church as Chaplain to America | |
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| Making Exceptions for US | |
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| On the Sign of Jonah, and the "Clash of Civilizations" Thesis | |
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| The Sign of Jonah Selective Discernment Shared Cultural Practices | |
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| On Muslim Hospitality | |
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| Good Friday | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| The Qur'an's Rejection of a Crucified Jesus | |
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| Theodicy | |
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| Evil as Mundane | |
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| A True Story to Live By | |
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| The Arab Barbershop, Changing Neighborhoods, and Other Small Exercises in Courage | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |