I’ll be moderating this MDI debate: My opening statement: Hello, good evening and welcome to the Muslim Debate Initiative’s public event, ‘Should God be de-radicalised?’. My name is Paul Williams. Our title this evening reflects modern anxieties about the level of religious involvement in the political spheres of life. The term ‘radical’ is being increasingly [...]
Michael Peppard, professor of theology at Fordham University, writes: Last winter, I wrote for these pages about reports of religious abuse at Guantánamo (“The Secret Weapon,” December 5, 2008). Among the abuses that had been reported were desecration of the Qur’an, prevention and mockery of prayer, and sexual assaults intended to undermine piety. I argued [...]
Penguin Classics have just published a new translation of the Qur’an by the scholar Tarif Khalidi. The Times Literary Supplement hailed it as ‘A landmark in the history of English translations of the Quran’. Tarif Khalidi is Sir Thomas Adam’s Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University (the oldest chair of Arabic in the English-speaking world), [...]
I have just received through the post (thank you Amazon!) a book I’ve been trying to get my hands on for ages: Christology and the New Testament: Jesus and his Earliest Followers by Christopher Tuckett. In case you didn’t know, Tuckett is Professor of New Testament Studies in the University of Oxford and author of [...]
On Mon 31/08/09 I sent the following email to ‘Servetus the Evangelical’ the author of The Restitution of Jesus Christ (see my post below) Hi there I agree with your general position on Christology and therefore welcome your contribution to the ongoing debate about the historical Jesus. I have a question: You say, ‘When the [...]
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