Peter D. Beaulieu examines the challenge posed by-and to-modernity and historic Islam as they encounter one another. He compares the Western separation of Church and state with the unitary Islamic State, and explores the proposed cultural and societal principles of the Second Vatican Council as potentially influencing long-term events in both arenas. Beaulieu's research is comprehensive and richly documented, yet offers an accessible triangular inquiry into the mosque, the manger, and modernity. By restoring a place at the table for Trinitarian Christianity alongside the engulfing monotheism of Islam and the alternative skepticism of Western rationalism, this inquiry broadens the pallet of inter-religious and intercultural contact points. Beyond Secularism and Jihad? provides balanced attention to the differences as well as the similarities between Christianity, Islam, and modernity. An emerging theme is natural law, which is universal and intrinsic to all mankind and not confined to competing theologies. Neglected in the West that it helped create, natural law might contribute to the needed "grammar" for dialogue between the citizens in the West and the followers of Islam.
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Peter D. Beaulieu earned a bachelor of architecture degree and a doctorate in urban and regional planning, both from the University of Washington. His career includes a tour as a junior officer in the United States Navy, long public service, a hobby of freehand drawing, and a vocation as a husband and father. He served on the Pastoral Council of the Archdiocese of Seattle and was a founding member of the G. K. Chesterton Society of Seattle. His two earlier books are Kristi: So Thin is the Veil (Crossroads, 2006), a meditation on his late wife's serene path through terminal cancer, and Beyond Secularism and Jihad: A Triangular Inquiry into the Mosque, the Manger & Modernity (University Press of America, 2012).
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1New York to Rome and Istanbul
Chapter 2Islam and the Map
Life of Mohammed
The Passion of Islam: Some Views
The Crooked Lines of History
Religion in History/Eternity in Time
Islam: A Christian "heresy"?
Chapter 3The Mosque: Shari'a and the World
The Qur'an and the New Testament
Submission and Freedom in the World
Natural Law and Shari'a
The Islamic State
Chapter 4The Manger: The Human Person in the World
"Separation" of Church and State
Inward and Outward Engagement: the Two Vatican Councils
Human Dignity and the Common Good
The Just War: Ideology or Discernment?
Chapter 5Modernity: Monologues and Conversations
The Third Encounter
Mirror Twins: The Crises of Islam and Modernity
Faith, Reason and Science
Paradise Lies at the Feet of Mothers
The Commandment of Love: A Muslim Request
Chapter 6Present to the Presence
More than Faith and Reason
Intellect and Faith
Will and Politics
Memory and Images
An Uncommon Word
Bibliography
Index