List of Participants; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Human Identity, Difference, and Guardianship; Part Two: Scriptural Texts on Being Human; Afterword: Reflections on Humanity in Text and Context; Index to Biblical Citations; Index to Qur'anic Citations; General Index
Summary
Humanity: Texts and Contexts is a record of the 2007 Singapore "Building Bridges" seminar, an annual dialogue between Muslim and Christian scholars cosponsored by Georgetown University and the Archbishop of Canterbury. This volume explores three central questions: What does it mean to be human? What is the significance of the diversity that is evident among human beings? And what are the challenges that humans face living within the natural world?. A distinguished group of scholars focuses on the theological responses to each of these questions, drawing on the wealth of material foun