Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives

Participants

Participants Alparslan Açikgenç Professor of Philosophy, Fatih University, Istanbul Asma Afsaruddin Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Thomas Banchoff Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Vincent J. Cornell Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Middle East and South Asian Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Caner Dagli Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts Gavin D’Costa Professor of Catholic Theology, University of Bristol, UK John J. DeGioia President, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Waleed El-Ansary Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina Stephen M. Fields Associate Professor of Theology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Lucy Gardner Tutor in Christian Doctrine, St. Stephen’s House, University of Oxford, UK vii viii Participants Sherine Hamdy Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Harriet Harris University Chaplain, University of Edinburgh, UK David Bentley Hart Eastern Orthodox theologian Philip Jenkins Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities, Pennsylvania State University Mohammad Hassan Khalil Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Illinois John Langan Rose Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Joseph E. B. Lumbard Assistant Professor of Classical Islam, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Daniel A. Madigan Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Theology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Maleiha Malik Professor in Law, King’s College, London Jane Dammen McAuliffe President, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania John Milbank Professor in Religion, Politics and Ethics, University of Nottingham, UK Mustansir Mir Professor of Islamic Studies, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio Sajjad Rizvi Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Exeter University, UK Abdullah Saeed Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia Participants ix Lamin Sanneh D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity and Professor of History, Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut Christoph Schwöbel Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Tübingen, Germany Recep Şentürk Director General and Dean of Graduate Studies, Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Istanbul Zaid Shakir Lecturer and Scholar-in-Residence, Zaytuna Institute, California Abdolkarim Soroush Scholar of Islamic thought Janet Soskice Professor of Philosophical Theology, University of Cambridge, UK Michael Welker Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Heidelberg, Germany Paul Weston Tutor in Mission Studies and Homiletics, Ridley Hall, Cambridge, UK Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury, Church of England Joseph Lumbard and Abdullah Saeed were prevented from attending the seminar but their papers were presented on their behalf and are included in this volume. Paul Weston did not attend the seminar but very kindly agreed at a later stage to provide a paper on Lesslie Newbigin. This page intentionally left blank ...