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Name
  
Kenneth Cragg


Education
  
University of Oxford

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Died
  
November 13, 2012, Lingfield, United Kingdom

Books
  
The call of the minaret, Jesus and the Muslim, Readings in the Qur'an, The Arab Christian, Muhammad and the Christian

Albert Kenneth Cragg (8 March 1913 – 13 November 2012) was an Anglican bishop and scholar who commented widely on religious topics for more than fifty years, most notably Muslim-Christian relations.

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Early life and eduction

Cragg was born on 8 March 1913. He was educated at Blackpool Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford. He was awarded the Grafton Scholarship in 1934.

Ordained ministry

Cragg was ordained in 1937. He began his career with a curacy at Higher Tranmere Parish Church, Birkenhead after which he was Chaplain of All Saints', Beirut, Rector of Longworth, Professor of Arabic and Islamics, Hartford Seminary, Connecticut and warden of St Augustine's College, Canterbury.

Episcopal ministry

Cragg was elevated to the episcopate as Assistant Bishop of Jerusalem in 1970.

There was at that time no Bishop of Egypt, and Cragg was given responsibility for the oversight of the Anglican communities in that country, until, in 1974, as a result of the reorganisation of the Anglican Church in the Middle East, a new Bishop was appointed.

He was then appointed Reader in Religious Studies, at Sussex University, following which he was Vicar of Helme (and an Assistant Bishop within the Wakefield Diocese).

In 1982, he retired to Diocese of Oxford.

Personal life

He married, in 1940, Melita Arnold. She died in 1989.

Works

  • The Call of the Minaret (1956) Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 56-8005 (1964 edition, Galaxy Books).
  • Sandals at the Mosque - Christian Presence Amid ISLAM (1959) SCM Press.
  • Alive to God - Muslim and Christian Prayer compiled with an Introductory Essay by Kenneth Cragg (1970) Oxford University Press, SBN 19 213220 2.
  • The Event of the Qur'an - Islam in its Scripture (1971) George Allen & Unwin, ISBN 0-04-297024-5.
  • The Mind of the Qur'an - Chapters in Reflection (1973) George Allen & Unwin, ISBN 0-04-297030-X.
  • This Year in Jerusalem - Israel in Experience (1982) Darton, Longman & Todd, ISBN 0-232-51534-4.
  • Muhammad and the Christian (1984) Darton, Longman & Todd.
  • The Pen and The Faith - Eight modern Muslim writers and the Qur'an (1985) George Allen & Unwin, ISBN 0-04-297044-X.
  • The Christ and the Faiths (1986) SPCK.
  • Readings in the Qur'an - Selected and Translated by Kenneth Cragg (1988) Collins Liturgical Publications, ISBN 0-00-599087-4 (pbk.).
  • Troubled by Truth - Life-Studies in Inter-Faith Concern (1992) Pentland Press, ISBN 1-872795-71-4.
  • Returning to Mount Hira' (1992) Bellew.
  • The Arab Christian - A History in the Middle East (1992) Mowbray, ISBN 0-264-67257-7.
  • The Lively Credentials of God (1995) Darton, Longman & Todd.
  • Palestine - The Prize and Price of Zion (1997) Cassel, ISBN 0-304-70075-4.
  • Muhammad in the Qur'an - The Task and the Text (2001) Melisende, ISBN 1-901764-13-3.
  • Am I not Your Lord - Human Meaning in Divine Question (2002) Melisende, ISBN 1-901764-21-4.
  • The Iron in the Soul - Joseph and the Undoing of Violence (2009) Melisende, ISBN 978-1-901764-55-0.
  • Translations

  • Hussein, Muhammad Kamel City of Wrong - A Friday in Jerusalem (1954) Cairo. Translation from Arabic published 1959 by Djambatan, Amsterdam.
  • References

    Kenneth Cragg Wikipedia


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