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Marshallmosher Deathresurrect DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND HUMAN DESTINY Previously Published Records of Building Bridges Seminars The Road Ahead: A Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Michael Ipgrave, Editor (London: Church House, 2002) Scriptures in Dialogue: Christians and Muslims Studying the Bible and the Qura¯n Together, Michael Ipgrave, Editor (London: Church House, 2004) Bearing the Word: Prophecy in Biblical and Qura¯nic Perspective, Michael Ipgrave, Editor (London: Church House, 2005) Building a Better Bridge: Muslims, Christians and the Common Good, Michael Ipgrave, Editor (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008) Justice and Rights: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, Michael Ipgrave, Editor (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2009) Humanity: Texts and Contexts: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, Michael Ipgrave and David Marshall, Editors (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011) Communicating the Word: Revelation, Translation, and Interpretation in Christianity and Islam, David Marshall, Editor (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011) Science and Religion: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, David Marshall, Editor (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012) Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, David Marshall, Editor (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013) Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, David Marshall and Lucinda Mosher, Editors (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013) For further information about the Building Bridges process, please visit: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/resources/networks/buildingebridges Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny Christian and Muslim Perspectives A record of the eleventh Building Bridges Seminar Convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury King’s College London and Canterbury Cathedral April 23–25, 2012 DAVID MARSHALL and LUCINDA MOSHER, Editors georgetown university press Washington, DC ᭧ 2014 Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Control Number: 2014005922 ⅜ϱ This book is printed on acid-free paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials. 2120191817161514 98765432First printing Printed in the United States of America Contents Participants ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv David Marshall Preface xxi Rowan Williams Part I: Surveys Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Bible 3 N. T. Wright Response to N. T. Wright 19 Reza Shah-Kazemi Response to Reza Shah-Kazemi 23 N. T. Wright Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Qura¯nic and Islamic Perspectives 25 Mona Siddiqui Response to Mona Siddiqui 39 Jane Dammen McAuliffe Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Islamic Tradition 43 Asma Afsaruddin Response to Asma Afsaruddin 57 Gavin D’Costa Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny in the Christian Tradition 61 Geoffrey Rowell Response to Geoffrey Rowell 73 Feras Hamza v vi Contents Dying Well: Christian Faith and Practice 79 Harriet Harris Response to Harriet Harris 95 Recep S¸entu¨rk A Muslim’s Perspective on the Good Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny 99 Sajjad Rizvi Death and the Love of Life: A Response to Sajjad Rizvi 111 Miroslav Volf Reflections 117 Rowan Williams Part II: Texts and Commentaries I Corinthians 15 125 St. Paul on the Resurrection: I Corinthians 15 129 Richard A. Burridge Selected Qur’a¯nic Texts 143 Commentary on Selected Qur’a¯nic Texts 147 Muhammad Abdel Haleem Selected Passages from al-Ghaza¯lı¯’s The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife 153 Al-Ghaza¯lı¯ on Death 161 Tim Winter Selected Passages from Dante’s The Divine Comedy 167 The Afterlife as Presented by Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy 179 Dennis McAuliffe Selected Passages from Journey to the Afterlife 187 Muslim Funerals 195 Musharraf Hussain Contemporary Funeral Liturgy in the Church of England 203 Christian Funerals 221 Michael Ipgrave Contents vii Conversations in Canterbury 231 David Marshall Afterword 241 Rowan Williams Personal Reflections on Death 245 A Decade of Appreciative Conversation: The Building Bridges Seminar under Rowan Williams 259 Lucinda Mosher Index 275 This page intentionally left blank Participants Muhammad Abdel Haleem King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Asma Afsaruddin Chair and Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Ahmet Alibasˇic´ Lecturer, Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Richard Burridge Dean of King’s College London and Professor of Biblical Interpretation Gavin D’Costa Professor of Catholic Theology, University of Bristol, UK Valentin Dedji Minister in Charge, St Mark’s Methodist Church, Tottenham, London John J. DeGioia President, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Brandon Gallaher Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK Lucy Gardner Tutor in Christian Doctrine, St. Stephen’s House, University of Oxford, UK Feras Hamza Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, American University in Dubai ix x Participants Harriet Harris University Chaplain, University of Edinburgh Musharraf Hussain Chief Executive, Karimia Institute, Nottingham, UK Michael Ipgrave Bishop of Woolwich, Church of England Daniel A. Madigan Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Theology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Dennis McAuliffe Associate Professor of Italian, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania Jane Dammen McAuliffe President, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania Ibrahim Mogra Chairman, Mosque and Community Affairs Committee, Muslim Council of Britain M. M. Dheen Mohamed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Qatar University Sajjad Rizvi Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Director of Education, University of Exeter, UK Geoffrey Rowell Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, Church of England Recep S¸entu¨rk Director General and Dean of Graduate Studies, Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University, Istanbul Reza Shah-Kazemi Research Associate, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London Philip Sheldrake Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge Theological Federation, UK Participants xi Ayman Shihadeh Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Mona Siddiqui Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies and Assistant Principal for Religion and Society, University of Edinburgh Martin Lukito Sinaga Study Secretary, Theology and Church Program, Lutheran World Federation, Geneva Miroslav Volf Director, Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury, Church of England Tim Winter Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, UK N. T. Wright Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, University of St. Andrews, UK This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments any thanks are due to all those whose hard work made possible the Msmooth running of the seminar recorded in this volume. Particular mention should be made of Richard Burridge, Clare Dowding, and their col- leagues at King’s College London, and of Toby Howarth and Tess Young at Lambeth Palace. The extremely generous support for Building Bridges provided over many years by Georgetown University has been essential to the flourishing of this project. Particular thanks, as ever, go to the president of Georgetown University, John J. DeGioia, and to Tom Banchoff, director of the Berkley Cen- ter for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Once again, it has been a pleasure working with Richard Brown and the staff of Georgetown University Press. xiii This page intentionally left blank Introduction DAVID MARSHALL n his final year as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams convened Ithe eleventh annual Building Bridges seminar for Christian and Muslim scholars, on the theme of ‘‘Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny.’’ The seminar lasted from April 23–25, 2012; the first day was dedicated to public lectures at King’s College London while the second and third days consisted of private sessions at the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge for the group of some thirty invited seminar participants. This record of the seminar closely follows the structure of its three days. The Preface draws on comments made by Rowan Williams in introducing the semi- nar. He begins by reviewing ten years of Building Bridges, noting two distinctive features of this approach to Christian–Muslim dialogue. First, it has not sought a high public profile but rather has been concerned to develop a community of scholars whose aim has been ‘‘to model a patience in dialogue that is fundamen- tally oriented towards getting to know one another’s hearts.’’ Second, Building Bridges has emphasized the study of scripture because ‘‘what actually changes things and moves us forward is watching somebody else engaging at depth with their own sacred texts and with their own tradition.’’ Turning to the theme of this seminar, Williams notes that, in a culture that finds it hard to discuss death, it is important for Muslims and Christians, who ‘‘share the vocabulary
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