Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim PerspectivesDavid Marshall Georgetown University Press, 2013 M05 20 - 248 pages 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 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries. |
Contents
Janet Soskice | |
Between Traditional and New Forms of Authority in Modern | |
Freedoms of Speech and Religion in the Islamic Context | |
CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM THINKERS | |
TRADITION AND MODERNITY | |
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