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.

The Reverend Dr. David Marshall is the academic director of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Building Bridges seminar and a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.

Introduction David Marshall

Part I: Surveys 1. Tradition and History in Islam: Primitivism in Islamic Thought and ScriptureVincent J. Cornell 2. TraditionJanet Soskice3. Religious Authority and the Challenges of ModernityPhilip Jenkins4. Between Traditional and New Forms of Authority in Modern IslamRecep Şentürk5. Freedoms of Speech and Religion in the Islamic ContextAbdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im6. Christianity, Modernity, and FreedomDavid Bentley Hart

Part II: Christian and Muslim Thinkers on Tradition and Modernity7. John Henry Newman (1801—90)TextsNewman on Revelation, Hermeneutics, and ConscienceStephen M. Fields8. Muhammad 'Abduh (1849—1905)TextsMuhammad 'Abduh: A Sufi-Inspired Modernist?Vincent J. Cornell9. Sayyid Abu l-A'la' Mawdudi (1903—79)TextsMawdudi and the Challenges of ModernityAbdullah Saeed10. Lesslie Newbigin (1909—98)TextsNewbigin and the Critique of ModernityPaul Weston11. Alasdair MacIntyre (1929— )TextMacIntyre on TraditionJohn Milbank12. Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933— )TextsSeyyed Hossein Nasr on Tradition and ModernityJoseph E. B. Lumbard13. Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (1938— )TextsElisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza: A Christian Feminist Responds to Betrayals of the TraditionLucy Gardner14. Tariq Ramadan (1962— )TextsTariq Ramadan's Tryst with Modernity: Toward a European Muslim TraditionSajjad Rizvi

Afterword Rowan Williams

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