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Tradition and modernity : Christian and Muslim perspectives : a record of the Ninth Building Bridges Seminar, convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., May 2010 / David Marshall, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Building Bridges Seminar, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Building Bridges Seminar (9th : 2010 : Georgetown University)
- Building Bridges Seminar
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam--Relations--Christianity.
- Islam.
- Christianity and other religions--Islam.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Taqlīd--Congresses.
- Taqlīd.
- Tradition (Theology)--Congresses.
- Tradition (Theology).
- Islamic modernism--Congresses.
- Islamic modernism.
- Modernism (Christian theology)--Congresses.
- Modernism (Christian theology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tradition and Modernity focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking especially at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Participants; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: SURVEYS; Tradition and History in Islam: Primitivism in Islamic Thought and Scripture; Tradition; Religious Authority and the Challenges of Modernity; Between Traditional and New Forms of Authority in Modern Islam; Freedoms of Speech and Religion in the Islamic Context; Christianity, Modernity, and Freedom; PART II: CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM THINKERS ON TRADITION AND MODERNITY; John Henry Newman (1801-90); Texts; Newman on Revelation, Hermeneutics, and Conscience; Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905); Texts
- Muhammad 'Abduh: A Sufi-Inspired Modernist?Sayyid Abu'l-A'la Mawdudi (1903-79); Texts; Mawdudi; and the Challenges of Modernity; Lesslie Newbigin (1909-98); Texts; Newbigin and the Critique of Modernity; Alasdair MacIntyre (1929- ); Text; MacIntyre on Tradition; Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933- ); Texts; Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Tradition and Modernity; Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (1938- ); Texts; Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza: A Christian Feminist Responds to Betrayals of the Tradition; Tariq Ramadan (1962- ); Texts; Tariq Ramadan's Tryst with Modernity: Toward a European Muslim Tradition
- AfterwordIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781589019829
- 1589019822
- OCLC:
- 846496211
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