Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Christian and Muslim Perspectives

by David Marshall (Editor), Lucinda Mosher (Editor), Reza Shah-Kazemi (Contribution by), N. T. Wright (Contribution by), Mona Siddiqui (Contribution by)

Overview

Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a record of the 2012 Building Bridges seminar for leading Christian and Muslim scholars, convened by Rowan Williams, then Archbishop of Canterbury. The essays in this volume explore what the Bible and Qurān—and the Christian and Islamic theological traditions—have to say about death, resurrection, and human destiny. Special attention is given to the writings of al-Ghazali and Dante. Other essays explore the notion of the good death. Funeral practices of each tradition are explained. Relevant texts are included with commentary, as are personal reflections on death by several of the seminar participants. An account of the informal conversations at the seminar conveys a vivid sense of the lively, penetrating, but respectful dialogue which took place. Three short pieces by Rowan Williams provide his opening comments at the seminar and his reflections on its proceedings. The volume also contains an analysis of the Building Bridges Seminar after a decade of his leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626160552
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	04/29/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Marshall is director of the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies and associate professor of the practice of Christian-Muslim relations, Duke Divinity School, and the academic director of the Building Bridges seminar.

Lucinda Mosher is the faculty associate for interfaith studies, Hartford Seminary, and the assistant academic director of the Building Bridges seminar.

Table of Contents

IntroductionDavid Marshall

PrefaceRowan Williams

Part I: SurveysDeath, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the BibleN. T. Wright

Response to N. T. WrightReza Shah-Kazemi

Response to Reza Shah-KazemiN. T. Wright

Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Qur'ānic and Islamic PerspectivesMona Siddiqui

Response to Mona SiddiquiJane Dammen McAuliffe

Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Islamic TraditionAsma Afsaruddin

Response to Asma AfsaruddinGavin D’Costa

Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Christian TraditionGeoffrey Rowell

Response to Geoffrey RowellFeras Hamza

Dying Well: Christian Faith and PracticeHarriet Harris

Response to Harriet HarrisRecep Şentürk

A Muslim’s Perspective on the Good Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny Sajjad Rizvi

Death and the Love of Life: A Response to Sajjad Rizvi Miroslav Volf

ReflectionsRowan Williams

Part II: Texts and Commentaries1 Corinthians 15

St. Paul on the Resurrection: 1 Corinthians 15Richard A. Burridge

Selected Qur’ānic Texts

Commentary on Selected Qur’ānic TextsMuhammad Abdel Haleem

Selected Passages from al-Ghazālī’s The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife

Al-Ghazālī on DeathTim Winter

Selected Passages from Dante’s The Divine Comedy

The Afterlife as Presented by Dante Alighieri in The Divine ComedyDennis McAuliffe

Selected Passages from Journey to the Afterlife

Muslim FuneralsMusharraf Hussain

Contemporary Funeral Liturgy in the Church of England

Christian FuneralsMichael Ipgrave

Conversations in CanterburyDavid Marshall

AfterwordRowan Williams

Personal Reflections on Death

A Decade of Appreciative Conversation: The Building Bridges Seminar under Rowan Williams Lucinda Mosher

Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Contrary to popular opinion, the death of Christian-Muslim dialogue is greatly exaggerated! This record of the eleventh Building Bridges seminar demonstrates the vitality of serious Muslim and Christian engagement over matters of shared interest and concern, particularly over matters of life and death. The chapters in this work are academically sound and the personal reflections intimately profound. This volume demonstrates that it is extremely valuable and possible to build lasting and intimate relationships between Christians and Muslims, and that there is much to be gained through steady and sustained encounters as a continuing process."—David D. Grafton, professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

David D. Grafton

Contrary to popular opinion, the death of Christian-Muslim dialogue is greatly exaggerated! This record of the eleventh Building Bridges seminar demonstrates the vitality of serious Muslim and Christian engagement over matters of shared interest and concern, particularly over matters of life and death. The chapters in this work are academically sound and the personal reflections intimately profound. This volume demonstrates that it is extremely valuable and possible to build lasting and intimate relationships between Christians and Muslims, and that there is much to be gained through steady and sustained encounters as a continuing process.

Editorial Reviews

These essays offer a rich and complex study of death and the afterlife.

Anglican Theological Review

Contrary to popular opinion, the death of Christian-Muslim dialogue is greatly exaggerated! This record of the eleventh Building Bridges seminar demonstrates the vitality of serious Muslim and Christian engagement over matters of shared interest and concern, particularly over matters of life and death. The chapters in this work are academically sound and the personal reflections intimately profound. This volume demonstrates that it is extremely valuable and possible to build lasting and intimate relationships between Christians and Muslims, and that there is much to be gained through steady and sustained encounters as a continuing process.

David D. Grafton