Naming God: Christian and Muslim Perspectives
About this ebook
Naming God entails labeling the ineffable. And yet the Bible itself oscillates between denying that God can be named and describing how God shows Godself anyway.
In Naming God, the result of the 2021 Building Bridges Seminar—an international dialogue of Christian and Muslim scholars—the contributors examine the many ways Christians and Muslims refer to and describe God and the significance of naming God differently. This book provides guidance and materials that will benefit faith leaders as well as students and scholars of theology, dialogue theory, and conflict resolution. Nonspecialists will benefit from an entry-point into the theme of naming God, while specialists will be challenged to develop and deepen their thought on this important topic.
About the author
Lucinda Mosher is director of the Master of Arts in Interreligious Studies and an affiliate of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. Concurrently, she is senior editor of the Journal of Interreligious Studies, founding president of Neighbor Faith Consultancy, and rapporteur of the Building Bridges Seminar. The author of six books, in addition to numerous chapters and journal articles, she is the editor or coeditor of nearly twenty titles—among them The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies (2022) and nine Building Bridges Seminar volumes.
