With God in Human Trust Christian Faith and Contemporary Humanism: A meeting of minds
Kenneth Cragg
Kenneth
Cragg was first in Jerusalem
in 1939, and subsequently became deeply involved in
areas of faith between Semitic religions under the
stress of current politics. He later pursued doctoral
studies in Oxford where he first graduated and became ‘Prizeman’in
Theology and Moral Philosophy, and where he is now
an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College. He was a Bishop
in the Anglican Jurisdiction in Jerusalem and elsewhere
in the Middle East, and played ecclesiastical roles
in Africa and India. A Certain Sympathy of Scriptures is
a companion book to his Readings in the Qur’an (1988;
1999), and more broadly to his Faiths in Their
Pronouns: Websites of Identity (2002). Other works
by Bishop Cragg, and published by Sussex Academic Press,
include: The Weight
in the Word –Prophethood, Biblical and Quranic;
and The Education of Christian Faith.
“A challenging and profitable read.” The Expository Times
“This book is concerned to stress the reciprocity and mutual trust that subsist between the divine and the human. Creation was not so much an act of power as a gift or delegation of God's own creativity… the act of creation was a risk in which God entrusted himself to human beings, who have the possibility of becoming co-workers, but are not forced to be such. This general thesis is then illustrated and confirmed in an examination in some of the major areas of human endeavour. The argument is enlivened throughout by a wealth of illustration from literature.” John MacQuarrie, DD, formerly Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Oxford
“Bishop Cragg develops the case for Christian theism in a book that will challenge the confident agnostic or atheist no less than the Muslim or Jew. This is a distinguished book in a crowded field.” Shabbir Akhtar, International Islamic University, Malaysia
