Die Autoren des vorliegenden Bandes setzen sich mit islamischen und christlichen Vorstellungen vom menschlichen Leben auseinander. Auf der Grundlage klassischer und zeitgenössischer theologischer Fragen und Interessen bieten sie der geistes- und naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung wichtige Einblicke in Debatten über den Menschen, sein Wesen, seine Zukunft und seine Ziele.

Tim Winter: Introduction

Part I: Created in the Image: Human Wholeness
Christoph Schwöbel: 'Theology ... defines the whole and complete and perfect human being.' Being Human in the Dispute between Theology and Philosophy: Variations on a Christian, Muslim and Jewish Theme - Recep Şentürk: Multiplex Human Ontology and Multiplex Self: An Alternative Understanding of Human Behaviour

Part II: Death and Human Becoming
Ivana Noble: Created to Be and to Become Human: A Christian Perspective - Lejla Demiri: 'He Who has created death and life' (Q 67:2): Death in Islamic Theology and Spirituality

Part III: Belief and Devotion
Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino: 'The Prophet is closer to the believers than they are to themselves' (Q 33:6): A Scriptural Inquiry into the Anthropological Foundation of the Ittibā ʿ al-Nabī (Sequela Prophetae) - Amina Nawaz: Mutual Influences of Christian and Muslim Anthropologies in History: A Case Study of Sixteenth-Century Morisco Devotions

Part IV: The Child in Human Becoming
Friedrich Schweitzer: The Anthropology of the Child: Opportunities and Challenges for a Neglected Topic in Christian-Muslim Dialogue - Mujadad Zaman: Children in the Medieval Islamic Imagination: A Path Towards Pedagogic Dialogue

Part V: Dignity and Sinfulness
Daniel A. Madigan SJ: 'These people have no grasp of God's true measure' (Q 39:67): Does the Doctrine of Original Sin do Justice to God and to Humanity? - Ralf K. Wüstenberg: The 'Fall' of Mankind: Structural Parallels between the Narratives of Sin in Christianity and Islam

Part VI: Limits to Being, Limits to Naming God
Simone Dario Nardella: God, Man, Being: ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's Explanation of the Intellect's Capacity to Know God in al-Wujūd al-Ḥaqq - Paul-A. Hardy: On Naming and Silencing - Conor Cunningham: Thomas Aquinas' Anthropology: Stuck in the Middle with You

Part VII: Futures
Michael Kirwan SJ/Ahmad Achtar: 'The wound where light enters': A 'Common Word' for Being Human in Islam and Christianity