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This book presents a multi-religious discussion of spiritual and ethical formation through friendship. Contributors from six global traditions draw on different spiritual concepts to show how friends help us establish diverse societies, healthy ecosystems, trauma healing, inner virtues, social action, and divine connection.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Laura Duhan-Kaplan, Hussam S. Timani, and Anne-Marie Ellithorpe
Chapter One: Friendship, Treaty, and Family: Indigenous Insights
Raymond C. Aldred and Allen G. Jorgenson
Chapter Two: Friendships of Equality: Mitratva, Hindu Traditions, and Interfaith Possibilities
Jeffery D. Long
Chapter Three: Civic Friendship and Reciprocity: Ancient Biblical Exhortations, Contemporary Opportunities
Anne-Marie Ellithorpe
Chapter Four: Becoming a Friend to the World: ¿¿ntideva on "Bodhisattva Friendship"
John M. Thompson
Chapter Five: Sacred Fellowship Among Learners: A Kabbalistic Pedagogy for Our Times
Laura Duhan-Kaplan
Chapter Six: God, Prophecy, and Friendship in Islam: A Theological Perspective
Hussam S. Timani
Chapter Seven: Ineffable Accompaniment: Towards a Theology of Friendship and The Human Animal
Dorothy Dean
Chapter Eight: "I have called you friends": Friendship in the New Testament and Early Christianity
Liz Carmichael
Chapter Nine: Seeking God Together in Christ-Friendship in the Christian Life
Paul J. Wadell
Chapter Ten: Love, Friendship, and Solidarity: A Christian Theology of Friendship
Marcus Mescher
Chapter Eleven: A Path Through the Hell of War Trauma: Pavel Florensky's Theology of Friendship
Adam Tietje
Chapter Twelve: The Project of Friendship: Biblical, Butlerian, and Beer-Brewing Reflections
Brandy Daniels and Shelly Penton
Chapter Thirteen: Religion Has No Bo(u)nds?: Expanding the Dimensions of Religion to Account for the Attachment of Spiritual Friendship
Sarah Ann Bixler
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Anne-Marie Ellithorpe; Laura Duhan-Kaplan and Hussam S. Timani - Contributions by Raymond C. Aldred; Sarah Ann Bixler; Liz Carmichael; Brandy Daniels; Dorothy Dean; Laura Duhan-Kaplan; Anne-Marie Ellithorpe; Allen G. Jorgenson; Jeffery Long; Mar
Summary
This book presents a multi-religious discussion of spiritual and ethical formation through friendship. Contributors from six global traditions draw on different spiritual concepts to show how friends help us establish diverse societies, healthy ecosystems, trauma healing, inner virtues, social action, and divine connection.
