God and Creation: An Ecumenical Symposium
Burrell McGinn
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Hardcover.
The manifest strength of the medieval period has always been the ways in which particular thinkers negotiated the twin criteria of reason and faith. What seemed to the Enlightenment a weakness appears to our time as a virtuoso performance. Less well-known in the West has been the inherently interfaith and intercultural character of the discussion.
This collection of essays, which originated in 1987 at a symposium titled "God and Creation: An Ecumenical Symposium in Comparative Religious Thought," is devoted to the doctrine of creation in the three Western monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. For the first time scholars from ... Read more
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Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268010201
SKU
V9780268010201
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About Burrell McGinn
David B. Burrell, C.S.C., is the Theodore Hesburgh C.S.C. Professor emeritus in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame.. He is the author of many books, including Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology (2011), Friendship and Ways to Truth (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), and Knowing The Unknowable God: Ibn Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas (University of Notre Dame Press, 1986). ... Read more
Reviews for God and Creation: An Ecumenical Symposium
“A gem of a book that no student of Abrahamic faiths in general or of Islam in particular can afford to miss. God and Creation marks a major contribution to comparative religious thought as well as to the doctrine of divine creation in the monotheistic traditions. . . . One fervently hopes that this remarkable book soon becomes available as ... Read more