Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective

In this book, David Burrell, one of the foremost philosophical theologians in the English-speaking world, presents the best of his work on creation and human freedom. It is a collection of writings by one of the foremost philosophers of religion in the English-speaking world. This work: brings together in one volume the best of David Burrell’s work on creation and human freedom from the last twenty years; dismantles the ‘libertarian’ approach to freedom underlying Western political and economic systems; and, engages with Islam, Judaism and Christianity, and with modern and pre-modern systems of thought. The author is noted for his rigorous approach, his wry humor, his intellectual subtlety and his generous spirit.