Building Bridges Seminar

In this volume, a record of the 2021 Building Bridges Seminar, six scholars examine the many ways Christians and Muslims refer to and describe God and the significance of naming God differently.

In this volume based on the 2019 Building Bridges Seminar, 10 Christian and Muslim scholars take on an important yet far from straightforward topic for comparative theological reflection.

In this volume documenting the 2018 Building Bridges Seminar, 15 leading Christian and Muslim scholars respond to the global crisis of inequality by demanding and modeling interreligious dialogue.

A record of the 2017 Building Bridges Seminar, this volume offers pairs of essays on a topic not usually explored in depth in Christian-Muslim conversations, plus the actual text-excerpts for dialogical study.

The proceedings from the 2016 Building Bridges Seminar, this book begins with a retrospective on the seminar's first 15 years and concludes with an account of theological discussions among participants on the unity of God.

A record of the 2015 Building Bridges Seminar for leading Christian and Muslim scholars, this collection of essays explores the nature of divine and human agency through themes of creation's goal, humankind's dignity and task, and notions of sovereignty.

Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation offers the proceedings of the 2014 Building Bridges Seminar. The essays in this volume explore the nature of human sin and divine forgiveness, topics that have often been a point of contention between Christians and Muslims.

The Community of Believers offers the proceedings of the 2013 Building Bridges Seminar, a dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars under the stewardship of Georgetown University.

A record of the 2012 Building Bridges Seminar, the essays in this volume explore what the Bible and Qur'an—and the Christian and Islamic theological traditions—have to say about death, resurrection, and human destiny. Other essays explore the notion of the good death, as well as explain the funeral practices of each tradition.

Drawn from the 2011 Building Bridges Seminar in Doha, Qatar, Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a rich collection of essays, scriptural texts, and personal reflections featuring leading scholars analyzing the meaning and function of prayer within their traditions.

Drawing on the 2010 Building Bridges Seminar, 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.

A record of the 2009 Building Bridges Seminar, the first part surveys some key issues in the relationship to science of Christianity and Islam, past and present. The second part presents text selections relevant to the interface between religion and science, together with illuminating commentary.

"Communicating the Word" provides a record of the 2008 Building Bridges Seminar. The essays address issue like the ways in which Christians and Muslims think of their scriptures as the ‘Word of God’, the possibility of translating scripture, and the methods involved in interpreting scripture.

A record of the 2007 Building Bridges Seminar in Singapore, this volume explores issues of human identity, diversity, and humanity's relationship with the natural world. Leading Christian and Muslim scholars also discuss gender, alienation, and human dignity; Rowan Williams provides the afterword.

A record of the 2006 Building Bridges Seminar, this volume examines justice and rights from Christian and Muslim perspectives—a topic of immense relevance for both faiths in the modern world, and with deep roots in the core texts and histories of both traditions.

This volume presents texts of public lectures given at the 2005 Building Bridges Seminar in Sarajevo together with presentations on issues of citizenship, religious believing and belonging, and the relationship between government and religion, with perspectives from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Britain, Malaysia, and West Africa.

This book provides a record of the 2004 Building Bridges Seminar, involving scholarly discussion regarding prophets, messengers charged with bringing the Word of God to the world, in the Bible and Qur'an. How do Muslims and Christians understand prophecy? What do their scriptures have in common and how do they differ in describing prophets?

Scriptures in Dialogue presents a record of the 2003 Building Bridges Seminar, held in Doha at the invitation of the emir of Qatar. The focus of this gathering was the intensive study of passages from the Qur'an and the Bible.

A record of the inaugural 2002 Building Bridges Seminar and drawing on the insights and expertise of Christians and Muslims from a wide variety of nations and cultures, this book offers a message of hope to all who seek to build bridges between those who follow the world's two biggest religions.