Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives

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Index Abduh, Muh .ammad, 97–114; biography, four-phased career, and legacy, 105–6; Cornell on, 105–14; on doctrine of destiny and fate, 97–99; on doctrine of Predestination, 97–99; on Islam and traditionalism, 100–101; and Islamic modernism, 107–8; on Islam’s influence on the West, 101–2; and Jamāl al-Dı̄n alAfgha ̄nı̄, 105, 106, 108–10, 112n3, 113n17; and Madanı̄yya Sufism, 108–9, 111; as mufti in Egypt, 106, 110–11; on polygamy/women in Islam, 103; reformist theology, 105–11; and Salafı̄ Islam, 106, 107, 108–9, 111; on science and reason, 102; and Shaikhi Shı̄ı̄sm, 109, 110, 113n17, 113n21; and Sufism/ Islamic mysticism, 106, 108–11 Abduh, Muh .ammad (texts), 97–104; Destiny and Fate, 97–99, 110, 112n3; Risālat al-wāridat fı̄ sirr al-tajallı̄yāt (Treatise on Mystical Inspirations in the Secret of Divine Manifestations), 109–11; Tafsı̄r al-Manār (Commentary on the Qurān), 103–4; The Theology of Unity (Risālat al-tawh .ı̄d), 99–102, 106, 110, 111 Abdulmecit (last Ottoman caliph), 50 Afghānı̄, Jamāl al-Dı̄n al-, 17, 105, 106, 108–10, 112n3, 113n17 Africa, contemporary: Christianity in, 37; death penalty for apostasy, 61, 66n3; Muslim practice of singing while engaged in labor, 26 Anglicanism, 26–27, 89–90 227 An-Naim, Abdullahi Ahmed, 2, 57–66, 223 apocalyptic consciousness, Christian, 71–74 apostasy: challenge to Islamic basis for freedoms of speech and religion, 60–63; death penalty for, 61, 66nn2–3; in Islamic jurisprudence, 61–62; Qurān on, 62–63; ridda (to turn back), 61–62; the Sunna (H . adı̄th) on, 62–63 Aristotle, 29, 163 Arnold, Matthew, 89, 91 Asharı̄ theology, 110, 113n23 Askarı̄, Imam H . asan al-, 17 Athanasian Creed, 82 Augustine, 39, 75, 90, 142, 148n5, 163 authority. See Christianity and religious authority; Islam and religious authority Avicenna (Abū Alı̄ ibn Sı̄nā), 109 Awlakı̄, Anwār al-, 14–15 Awzāı̄, Abd al-Rah .mān, 14 Azmeh, Aziz al-, 107 Bannā, H . asan al-, 107 baya (covenant/contract between caliph and community), 47–48 Benedict XVI, Pope, 90 Bible, Christian: alternative gospel of Thomas and gospel source ‘‘Q,’’ 36–37; Augustine’s interpretations, 39; biblical fundamentalism, 34; canon and different denominations, 27, 30n3; on death penalty for apostasy, 61, 66n2; modernist analysis and criticism, 29, 32–33, 34; Newbigin on religious authority and, 135–36, 137, 143; Origen’s interpretations , 39; Pentecostal readings, 39–40; 228 Index Bible, Christian (continued) postmodern thought on the canon, 36–37; premodern/ancient approaches to authority of, 35–40; process of ‘‘rereading,’’ 27–28; and religious struggles of the sixteenth century, 26–27; Schüssler Fiorenza on images of women, 187–88, 195, 196–97; and tradition, 26–28, 222 Blunt, Wilfrid, 105 Boas, George, 1, 8–10 Brague, Rémi, 158–59 British Council of Churches, 142 Building Bridges seminar at Georgetown University (May, 2010), 1–4 Burckhardt, Titus, 178 Burke, Edmund, 154, 164, 168n8 Caillé, Alain, 164 caliphate: attempts to restore, 14, 52; disestablishment of, 50–51; and Islam’s traditional authority structure, 47, 48; ‘‘Rightly Guided Caliphs,’’ 12–13, 22n11 Carpenter, Joel, 38 Catholicism, contemporary: biblical canon, 30n3; challenges to model of religious authority, 34–35; charismatic authority, 40; clergy abuse scandals, 34; conservative counterrevolution, 41; European, 40, 84–86; infallibility of, 84–86, 91–92; Nasr and the first Catholic– Muslim forum (2008), 178; Newman and, 84–86, 89–95; Schüssler Fiorenza on biblical images of women, 188; Schüssler Fiorenza on Catholic feminists, 191–92; Second Vatican Council, 34, 89, 191, 197–98 Christian scripture. See Bible, Christian Christianity and freedom, 2, 67–78; apocalypticism , 71–74; the church and institution of slavery, 75–76; the church and political emancipation of women, 76, 78n3; civil law/modern civil order, 74–77; God’s freedom, 70–71; late scholastic voluntarism, 70; the law and modern notions of freedom, 69; and modernity, 2, 67–78; modern/ premodern notions of freedom, 67–71; Newbigin on agnostic pluralistic society, 138–39, 147; Newbigin on freedom of thought and conscience, 137–38; Paul and the early Christian perspective on liberation, 71–74; sovereignty of the will, 68–69; task of Christian social thought to enunciate vision of, 77 Christianity and religious authority, 2, 31–44; biblical authority, 35–40, 135–36, 137, 143; challenges to Catholic model, 34–35; charisma (the charismatic ), 40; and comparative...