Our Father
Donald Senior February 11, 2013 - 11:40am
Inheriting Abraham
The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity & Islam
Jon D. Levenson
Princeton University Press, $29.95, 288 pp.
For years I have served on the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago, an interreligious group that addresses civic issues of common concern. The council began as a coalition of Christians and Jews, under the leadership of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, amid racial tensions surrounding the election of Harold Washington, the city’s first African-American mayor. Soon afterward it expanded to include the Muslim community; from then on, council...
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