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Document Details : Title: Comparative Scriptural Reading of Muslim-Christian Marian Texts Subtitle: How God Reveals through the Embodied Experience of Pregnancy Author(s): GHAZAL, Ghada Abdul Salam , MIDDLETON, Kate Kelly Journal: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue Volume: 34 Issue: 2 Date: 2024 Pages: 211-236 DOI: 10.2143/SID.34.2.3293937 Abstract : This comparative scriptural reading explores two accounts where God reveals Godself within the visceral, embodied experiences of pregnancy. Through a side-by-side reading of two accounts of Mary – one from the Gospel of Luke (the Visitation) and the other from Surah Maryam (Q. 19) – the authors explore how narrative accounts of Mary exemplify God’s intent for relationality, asking how, through the experiential knowledge of pregnancy, humans are called into relationship to the Creator and relationship to one another. Our study reflects the developing practice of Muslim-Catholic comparative scriptural reading as 'inviting the other into our questioning, not just into our answers', where 'engagement with the texts sacred to our traditions is an aspect of doing theology together … it is listening for the Word through our respective scriptures' (as Daniel Madigan writes). Reading in this way, we draw conclusions about how Mary may act as a Muslim-Catholic model of embodied hope. |
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