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. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.
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Table of Contents
Introduction | David Marshall
Part I: Surveys
- Tradition and History in Islam: Primitivism in Islamic Thought and Scripture | Vincent J. Cornell
- Tradition | Janet Soskice
- Religious Authority and the Challenges of Modernity | Philip Jenkins
- Between Traditional and New Forms of Authority in Modern Islam | Recep Senturk
- Freedoms of Speech and Religion in the Islamic Context | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim
- Christianity, Modernity, and Freedom | David Bentley Hart
Part II: Christian and Muslim Thinkers on Tradition and Modernity
John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
- Texts
- "Newman on Revelation, Hermeneutics, and Conscience" | Stephen M. Fields
Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905)
- Texts
- "Muhammad Abduh: A Sufi-Inspired Modernist?" | Vincent J. Cornell
Sayyid Abul-Ala Mawdudı (1903–1979)
- Texts
- "Mawdudı and the Challenges of Modernity" | Abdullah Saeed
Lesslie Newbigin (1909–1998)
- Texts
- "Newbigin and the Critique of Modernity" | Paul Weston
Alasdair MacIntyre (1929– )
- Text
- "MacIntyre on Tradition" | John Milbank
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933– )
- Texts
- "Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Tradition and Modernity" | Joseph E. B. Lumbard
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza (1938– )
- Texts
- "Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza: A Christian Feminist Responds to Betrayals of the Tradition" | Lucy Gardner
Tariq Ramadan (1962– )
- Texts
- "Tariq Ramadan’s Tryst with Modernity: Toward a European Muslim Tradition" | Sajjad Rizvi
Afterword | Rowan Williams