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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 | |