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In Freedom: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, a volume based on the 2019 Building Bridges Seminar, 10 Christian and Muslim scholars take on an important yet far from straightforward topic for comparative theological reflection.

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Table of Contents

• Participants 
• Introduction

Part One: Overviews

• Who Gets to Decide What Freedom Is? A Christian Perspective | C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell
• God-Given Freedom: An Islamic Point of View | Tuba Işik
• Freedom in the Contemporary Context: Trends in Intersections of Religion, Development, and Foreign Policy | Azza Karam

Part Two: Islamic Texts on Freedom

• Aspects of Human Freedom: Reflections on Selections from the Qur'an and Hadith | Abdullah Saeed
• The Qur'an and Hadith on Freedom: Selections for Dialogue
• Freedom as a Theme in Islamic Thought: An Introduction to Selected Premodern Texts | Lejla Demiri
• Premodern Islamic Writings on Freedom: Selections for Dialogue
• Modern Muslim Elucidations and Contentions on Freedom: An Introduction to Texts for Dialogue | Martin Nguyen
• Islamic Thought in the Modern Period: Selections for Dialogue

Part Three: Christian Texts on Freedom

• Freedom in the Hebrew Bible: From Exodus to Ezekiel, by Way of Reba McEntire and Rage against the Machine | Christopher M. Hays
• Old Testament Texts about Freedom: Selections for Dialogue
• The Motif of Freedom in New Testament Texts: An Introduction | Susan Eastman
• New Testament Texts about Freedom: Selections for Dialogue
• Thematic Dimensions of Freedom: Christian Texts from the Classical Period | Jonathan Chaplin
• Christian Thought on Freedom in the Classical Period: Selections for Dialogue
• Freedom in Modern Christian Thought: Introduction to Sacred Texts | Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar
• Christian Writings from the Modern Period: Selections for Dialogue

Part Four: Reflections

• Conversations on the Theme of Freedom: Reflections of the Building Bridges Seminar at le Château de Bossey | Lucinda Mosher