Scriptural Reasoning session on the topic of "Debt and Freedom" featuring texts from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and the Qur'an. The time of study will be followed by paper examining the Scripture, Interpretation, and Practice (SIP) graduate program at the University of Virginia, conceptualizing it as a mode of intellectual formation. Determining how to characterize SIP’s distinctiveness across multiple projects is part of the paper’s analytic task.
I present this paper as an illustration of how I understand reparative reasoning and the second-order activity of reasoning about repair, abstracting my model from a concrete instance of repair. I begin with a visualization—both by showing an image and offering a creative reading of it—of the work of Khaled Abou El Fadl, an important Muslim theologian and jurist. I then offer a brief commentary drawing out the reparative dimensions of his work, as well as the implications of reading him as engaged in repair.