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Summary
Summary
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?n?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.
Author Notes
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
| Participants | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xxi |
| Part I Surveys | |
| Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Bible | p. 3 |
| Response to N. T. Wright | p. 19 |
| Response to Reza Shah-Kazemi | p. 23 |
| Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Qur'anic and Islamic Perspectives | p. 25 |
| Response to Mona Siddiqui | p. 39 |
| Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Islamic Tradition | p. 43 |
| Response to Asma Afsaruddin | p. 57 |
| Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Christian Tradition | p. 61 |
| Response to Geoffrey Rowell | p. 73 |
| Dying Well: Christian Faith and Practice | p. 79 |
| Response to Harriet Harris | p. 95 |
| A Muslim's Perspective on the Good Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny | p. 99 |
| Death and the Love of Life: A Response to Sajjad Rizvi | p. 111 |
| Reflections | p. 117 |
| Part II Texts and Commentaries | |
| I Corinthians 15 | p. 125 |
| St. Paul on the Resurrection: 1 Corinthians 15 | p. 129 |
| Selected Qur'anic Texts | p. 143 |
| Commentary on Selected Qur'anic Texts | p. 147 |
| Selected Passages from al-Ghazalf's The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife | p. 153 |
| Al-Ghazall on Death | p. 161 |
| Selected Passages from Dante's The Divine Comedy | p. 167 |
| The Afterlife as Presented by Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy | p. 179 |
| Selected Passages from Journey to the Afterlife | p. 187 |
| Muslim Funerals | p. 195 |
| Contemporary Funeral Liturgy in the Church of England | p. 203 |
| Christian Funerals | p. 221 |
| Conversations in Canterbury | p. 231 |
| Afterword | p. 241 |
| Personal Reflections on Death | p. 245 |
| A Decade of Appreciative Conversation: The Building Bridges Seminar under Rowan Williams | p. 259 |
| Index | p. 275 |
