Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives

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Contents Participants vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 David Marshall PART I: SURVEYS Tradition and History in Islam: Primitivism in Islamic Thought and Scripture 7 Vincent J. Cornell Tradition 25 Janet Soskice Religious Authority and the Challenges of Modernity 31 Philip Jenkins Between Traditional and New Forms of Authority in Modern Islam 45 Recep Şentürk Freedoms of Speech and Religion in the Islamic Context 57 Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim Christianity, Modernity, and Freedom 67 David Bentley Hart PART II: CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM THINKERS ON TRADITION AND MODERNITY John Henry Newman (1801–90) Texts 81 v vi Contents Newman on Revelation, Hermeneutics, and Conscience 89 Stephen M. Fields Muh .ammad Abduh (1849–1905) Texts 97 Muh .ammad Abduh: A Sufi-Inspired Modernist? 105 Vincent J. Cornell Sayyid Abū l-Alā Mawdūdı̄ (1903–79) Texts 115 Mawdūdı̄ and the Challenges of Modernity 125 Abdullah Saeed Lesslie Newbigin (1909–98) Texts 133 Newbigin and the Critique of Modernity 141 Paul Weston Alasdair MacIntyre (1929– ) Text 151 MacIntyre on Tradition 157 John Milbank Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933– ) Texts 169 Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Tradition and Modernity 177 Joseph E. B. Lumbard Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (1938– ) Texts 185 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza: A Christian Feminist Responds to Betrayals of the Tradition 193 Lucy Gardner Tariq Ramadan (1962– ) Texts 201 Tariq Ramadan’s Tryst with Modernity: Toward a European Muslim Tradition 209 Sajjad Rizvi Afterword 221 Rowan Williams Index 227 ...