Gabriel Reynolds
Hear the story and scholarship of Professor Gabriel Reynolds as he describes his journey to a deeper Catholic faith, his sense of true vocation, and his hopes for interreligious dialogue between Muslims and Christians.
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Friday, June 7, 2024 12:00 pm
“I pray regularly and seek the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary for my family but also for Notre Dame and for the students. So that’s very important, and it gives one the sense that this is not just a job to get a paycheck, but you want students to experience human flourishing and ultimately salvation.” – Gabriel Reynolds
Hear the story and scholarship of Professor Gabriel Reynolds as he describes his journey to a deeper Catholic faith, his sense of true vocation, and his hopes for interreligious dialogue between Muslims and Christians.
This episode was originally published by FaithND in spring 2020. To explore the entire library of Everyday Holiness podcast episodes and for more information about FaithND, please visit faith.nd.edu. For more from Gabriel Reynolds on ThinkND, please check out our ThinkND series The Global Church and Islam and The Church in Asia.
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Gabriel Said Reynolds did his doctoral work at Yale University in Islamic Studies. Currently he researches the Qur’ān and Muslim/Christian relations and is Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology in the Department of Theology at Notre Dame. He is the author of The Qur’ān and Its Biblical Subtext (Routledge 2010) and The Emergence of Islam (Fortress, 2012), the translator of ʿAbd al-Jabbar’s Critique of Christian Origins (BYU 2008), and editor of The Qur’ān in Its Historical Context (Routledge 2008) and New Perspectives on the Qur’ān: The Qur’ān in Its Historical Context 2 (Routledge 2011). In 2012-13 Prof. Reynolds directed, along with Mehdi Azaiez, “The Qurʾān Seminar,” a year-long collaborative project dedicated to encouraging dialogue among scholars of the Qurʾān, the acts of which appeared as The Qurʾān Seminar Commentary (De Gruyter, 2016). In 2018 he published The Qurʾan and the Bible with Yale University Press and in 2020 Allah: God in the Qur’an, also with YUP. At Notre Dame he teaches courses on theology, Muslim/Christian Relations, and Islamic Origins. He runs a youtube channel, “Exploring the Qur’an and the Bible” that features conversations on scripture with leading scholars.