Obliged by Grace

A study in the history of the history of religions at Princeton Theological Seminary, the article reflects on the contribution of an under-appreciated figure on the faculty, Edward Jurji, a Syrian Christian acclaimed as a scholar of Islam and as a phenomenologist. Jurji’s intellectual odyssey is traced as he emerged from the shadow of his predecessor Samuel Zwemer, famed (and reviled) as a missionary polemicist in the Middle East, to become an avid proponent of a dialogical approach to the history of religions. Much is owed to Jurji for pioneering the seminary’s first large-scale interfaith colloquies

Dialogical self · Epistemology · History of religions · Interfaith Dialogue · Islam · Shadow (psychology) · Theological seminary · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Religious studies