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
Machine generated contents note: pt. I SURVEYS -- Tradition and History in Islam: Primitivism in Islamic Thought and Scripture / Vincent J. Cornell -- Tradition / Janet Soskice -- Religious Authority and the Challenges of Modernity / Philip Jenkins -- Between Traditional and New Forms of Authority in Modern Islam / Recep Senturk -- Freedoms of Speech and Religion in the Islamic Context / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim -- Christianity, Modernity, and Freedom / David Bentley Hart -- pt. II CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM THINKERS ON TRADITION AND MODERNITY -- John Henry Newman (1801-90) -- Texts -- Newman on Revelation, Hermeneutics, and Conscience / Stephen M. Fields -- Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905) -- Texts -- Muhammad 'Abduh: A Sufi-Inspired Modernist? / Vincent J. Cornell -- Sayyid Abu l-A'la Mawdudi (1903-79) -- Texts -- Mawdudi and the Challenges of Modernity / Abdullah Saeed -- Lesslie Newbigin (1909-98) -- Texts -- Newbigin and the Critique of Modernity / Paul Weston -- Alasdair MacIntyre (1929- ) -- Text -- MacIntyre on Tradition / John Milbank -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933- ) -- Texts -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Tradition and Modernity / Joseph E.B. Lumbard -- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza (1938- ) -- Texts -- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza: A Christian Feminist Responds to Betrayals of the Tradition / Lucy Gardner -- Tariq Ramadan (1962- ) -- Texts -- Tariq Ramadan's Tryst with Modernity: Toward a European Muslim Tradition / Sajjad Rizvi
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
