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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158567803321

Titolo

Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny : Christian and Muslim Perspectives / / edited by David Marshall and Lucinda Mosher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Georgetown University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-62616-055-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

202.3

Soggetti

Christianity and other religions - Islam

Islam - Relations - Christianity

Eschatology

Eschatology - Biblical teaching

Islamic eschatology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Participants; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Preface; Part I: Surveys; Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Bible; Response to N. T. Wright; Response to Reza Shah-Kazemi; Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Qurānic and Islamic Perspectives; Response to Mona Siddiqui; Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Islamic Tradition; Response to Asma Afsaruddin; Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Christian Tradition; Response to Geoffrey Rowell; Dying Well: Christian Faith and Practice; Response to Harriet Harris

A Muslim's Perspective on the Good Death, Resurrection, and Human DestinyDeath and the Love of Life: A Response to Sajjad Rizvi; Reflections; Part II: Texts and Commentaries; I Corinthians 15; St. Paul on the Resurrection: I Corinthians 15; Selected Qurānic Texts; Commentary on Selected Qurānic Texts; Selected Passages from al-Ghazālī's The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife; Al-Ghazālī on Death; Selected Passages from Dante's The Divine Comedy; The



Afterlife as Presented by Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy; Selected Passages from Journey to the Afterlife; Muslim Funerals

Contemporary Funeral Liturgy in the Church of EnglandChristian Funerals; Conversations in Canterbury; Afterword; Personal Reflections on Death; A Decade of Appreciative Conversation: The Building Bridges Seminar under Rowan Williams; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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 Qur?an-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 c