Faith And Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective

• A collection of writings by one of the foremost philosophers of religion in the English-speaking world.
  
• Brings together in one volume the best of David Burrell’s work on creation and human freedom from the last twenty years.
  
• Dismantles the ‘libertarian’ approach to freedom underlying Western political and economic systems.
  
• Engages with Islam, Judaism and Christianity, and with modern and pre-modern systems of thought.
  
• The author is noted for his rigorous approach, his wry humor, his intellectual subtlety and his generous spirit.

Prologue.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Creator/Creation Relation:.

1. Distinguishing God from the World.

2. The Unknowability of God in al-Ghazali.

3. Why not Pursue the Metaphor of Artisan and View God's Knowledge as Practical?.

4. Maimonides, Aquinas and Gersonides on Providence and Evil.

5. Aquinas' Debt to Maimonides.

6. Creation and `Actualism': The Dialectical Dimension of Philosophical Theology.

7. Aquinas and Scotus: Contrary Patterns for Philosophical Theology.

8. From Analogy of 'Being' to the Analogy of Being.

Part II: Divine Freedom and Human Freedom:.

9. The Challenge to Medieval Christian Philosophy: Relating Creator to Creatures.

10. Freedom and Creation in the Abrahamic Traditions.

11. Al-Ghazali on Created Freedom.

12. Creation, Will and Knowledge in Aquinas and Duns Scotus.

Part III: Interfaith Encounter:.

13. God, Religious Pluralism, and Dialogic Encounter.

14. The Christian Distinction Celebrated and Expanded.

15. Incarnation and Creation: The Hidden Dimension.

16. Assessing Statements of Faith: Augustine and Etty Hillesum.

Index