Muslim and Christian scholars' reflections on how God speaks and how faith communities listen
Islam and Christianity similarly rest on a moment in human history where it is believed that God's speech was made uniquely available to humanity for continued encounter. For Muslims, this is the event of the Qurān; for Christians, this is the event of Jesus. The question of this defining revelatory event may be considered the most foundational question in theology.
God's Word and the Community of Faith presents an international group of Christian and Muslim scholars in dialogue centered on the question of revelation. Through dialogically close readings of Muslim and Christian texts on the actuality, extent, nature, and modes of revelation, the book's contributors seek a deeper understanding of the similarities, variations, and particularities of the ways language associated with revelation is used in these traditions.
Guided by the recollection that both traditions assert that the world has received a defining manifestation of God's Word, which has claimed authority and to which a community of faith responds, the ten essays and six sets of texts on these responses that make up this book are resources for reflection that will enlighten scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, religious leaders, and motivated nonspecialists.
Reviews
"This volume records the twenty-first Building Bridges Seminar, held in Berlin in 2023, where Christian and Muslim scholars met for sustained study of revelation, scripture, and the community of faith. The essays and selected texts show both the shared language and the substantial differences that shape Christian and Muslim accounts of God's Word. It is a serious contribution to comparative theology and Christian-Muslim dialogue."—Gabriel Said Reynolds, Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame
About the Author
Lucinda Mosher is director of the Master of Arts in Interreligious Studies program and an affiliate of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. She is also rapporteur for the Building Bridges Seminar and senior editor of the Journal of Interreligious Studies.
