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Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives

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David Marshall, Editor. Afterword by Rowan Williams
2013
Published by: Georgetown University Press
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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.

Table of Contents

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Cover

pp. 1-1

Title Page, Copyright

pp. 2-5

Contents

pp. v-vi

Participants

pp. vii-x

Acknowledgments

pp. xi-xii

Introduction

pp. 1-4

Part I: Surveys

Tradition and History in Islam: Primitivism in Islamic Thought and Scripture

pp. 7-24

Tradition

pp. 25-30

Religious Authority and the Challenges of Modernity

pp. 31-44

Between Traditional and New Formsof Authority in Modern Islam

pp. 45-56

Freedoms of Speech and Religionin the Islamic Context

pp. 57-66

Christianity, Modernity, and Freedom

pp. 67-78

Part II: Christian and Muslim Thinkers on Tradition and Modernity

John Henry Newman (1801–90)

pp. 81-88

Newman on Revelation, Hermeneutics,and Conscience

pp. 89-96

Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849–1905)

pp. 97-104

Muḥammad ʿAbduh: A Sufi-Inspired Modernist?

pp. 105-114

Sayyid Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Mawdūdī (1903–79)

pp. 115-124

Mawdūdī and the Challenges of Modernity

pp. 125-132

Lesslie Newbigin (1909–98)

pp. 133-140

Newbigin and the Critique of Modernity

pp. 141-150

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929– )

pp. 151-156

MacIntyre on Tradition

pp. 157-168

Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933– )

pp. 169-176

Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Tradition and Modernity

pp. 177-184

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (1938– )

pp. 185-192

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza: A Christian Feminist Responds to Betrayals of the Tradition

pp. 193-200

Tariq Ramadan (1962– )

pp. 201-208

Tariq Ramadan’s Tryst with Modernity: Toward a European Muslim Tradition

pp. 209-220

Afterword

pp. 221-226

Index

pp. 227-236
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