{"id":565,"date":"2014-06-29T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/06\/theology-in-progress-beginnings.html"},"modified":"2014-06-29T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T14:20:00","slug":"theology-in-progress-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/06\/theology-in-progress-beginnings.html","title":{"rendered":"Theology-in-Progress: Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

For the past two years I have been working on an book project that in some respects is a significant departure from my previous scholarship. At the same time, it is a natural extension of the work that I have been long doing. The project in question is a work of constructive Muslim theology. I began to seriously consider writing a work of theology \u2014 and not simply a study of theology \u2014 two years ago after a number of fruitful conversations with friends, family, and colleagues. But it was during Ramadan of 2012 that I resolved to move forward and begin writing.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the arrival of Ramadan this year, I have completed the introduction and first four chapters of the book of a planned total of six. While I have been writing, I have had the opportunity to present my theology-in-progress at a number of venues. At the Contemplating the Qur\u2019an (Tadabbur al-Qur\u2019an) Conference at Howard Divinity School I presented \u201cThe Dialectic of Revelation: The Qur\u2019an and Systematic Theology\u201d and then at the Fifth Annual Meeting for the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics (SSME) I presented \u201cTradition and the Religious Imagination in Muslim Theology.\u201d This might give you some idea of what this book is about. But as I work to complete the book, I plan to share \u2013insha\u2019Allah \u2013 aspects and excerpts here on Islamicana in a series entitled \u201cTheology-in-Progress\u201d because all theology, in truth, is a human work-in-progress.<\/p>\n

As a way of beginning, here is an edited excerpt of a section entitled \u201cTerms of the Conversation\u201d from Chapter One<\/p>\n

Read the rest here<\/a><\/p>\n

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