Glaser, Ida (married to David Coffey) - seconded Crosslinks staff-member
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of David and Ida's wedding - 21st May 2005
I moved to Edinburgh in August 2001 to develop teaching and research programmes at the new Edinburgh Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies. This is an independent Christian study centre co-operating with the department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies in the University of Edinburgh with the aim of encouraging Christians to do serious academic studies of Islam and Muslim-Christian interactions and to develop research on the Muslim-Christian interface.
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Since September 2002, there have been an exciting series of seminars, special events at ‘Id and at Easter, and two conferences for Christians thinking about Islam as well as beginning to teach courses in the University. An amazing variety of Muslims, Christians and other interested people have attended, and God is leading the work in a unique way.
I have experience of teaching physics in Islamic contexts and of church-based outreach in multi-racial, inner-city Britain. I have also been responsible for work amongst people of other faiths for Crosslinks, and was the director of Faith to Faith, a Christian consultancy on other faiths. I have taught Muslim-Christian relations at post-graduate level in Jamaica, Nigeria, India and the Philippines as well as in Birmingham, UK.
At the moment, I am working on a book that re-reads the Bible in the context of the religions that surrounded Israel, and therefore in the context of relationships with people of other faiths today. Muslim-Christian relations have suddenly arrived on peoples’ agendas, and I feel very privileged to be one of the few evangelicals whom God has led into serious engagement with Muslims at an academic as well as personal and missional level. It is my passion to see Christians responding to Muslims on a thoroughly biblical basis and with the mind of Christ. Please pray for me!
Ida and David and the team will be leaving Edinburgh and want to start a similar work at another base, this time in England. Please pray for the right location and new ways to develop the work.
(Click here to access some my of discussion papers).
Ida has a personal blog at:
http://www.glasers.org/blog/ida/
Publications:
Books
'The Bible and other Faiths' IVP 2005
(available from www.ivpbooks.com
search under "glaser")
With Napoleon John, 'Partners or Prisoners? Christians thinking about women and
Islam', Paternoster, 1998.
With Shaylesh Raja, 'Sharing the Salt: making friends with Muslims, Hindus and
Sikhs', Scripture Union, 1999.
Forthcoming: a volume on theology of religions for the new Global Christian Library of IVP and ELS.
Books: contributions
‘Scripture and mission in an inner city area in the UK’, in 'The Anglican Communion and
Scripture', John Stott et. al., Regnum, 1996, pp161-70.
‘The suffering God’, in 'Aisha my Sister', S.J. Sutcliffe, Paternoster, 1997, pp246-57.
‘Teaching the Old Testament in the context of Islam’, in R.S.Hess and G.J.Wenham (eds),
'Making the Old Testament Live', Erdmann's, 1998, pp131-43.
‘The concept of relationship as a key to the comparative understanding of Christianity and Islam’, in Trueman, C.R., Gray, T.J. and Blomberg, C.L. (eds),
'Solid Ground – 25 years of evangelical theology', Apollos, 2000 (reprint of 1986 paper).
‘Cross-reference theology’ in P. Gardner, C. Wright and C. Green
(eds), 'Fanning the Flame: Bible Cross and Mission', Zondervan, 2003.
Journal contributions
‘Towards a mutual understanding of Christian and Islamic concepts of revelation’, in Themelios, 1982, pp16-22.
‘A key problem in physics teaching and a possible solution with wide applicability’, in School Science Review, 1982, pp168-71.
‘On science and truth’, in School Science Review, 1983, pp156-8.
‘The concept of relationship as a key to the comparative understanding of Christianity and Islam’, in Themelios, 1986, pp57-60.
‘Authority, identity and the establishment of the people of God: understanding the political challenge of Islam’, in Bina, journal of the Jamaica Theological Seminary and Caribbean Graduate School of Theology, Vol 2 1997, pp77-91.
‘Qur’anic challenges for Genesis’, in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Vol 75, 1997, pp3-19.
‘Roles and relationships: reflections on the khalifah and the image of God’, in Transformation, Vol 15 No 1, 1997, pp18-23.
‘Faith and Society in the UK’, in Transformation, Vol 17 No 1, 2000, pp 26-9.
‘Theological questions: an agenda for study’, in Transformation, Vol 17 No 1, 2000, pp 44-8.
‘Millennial reverie: Muslims in Britain’, in Anvil, vol17 no 3, 2000, pp179-90.
‘Roles and relationships: women and men in Islam and Christianity’, in TCNN Research Bulletin, No 37, 2002, pp36-47.
‘Family and faith’, in Transformation, Vol 19 No 1, 2002, pp23-33.
Links to some of Ida's work:
http://www.csreview.org/XXXIV4/glaser/
http://www.medievalchurch.org.uk/pdf/islam_glaser.pdf
http://www.medievalchurch.org.uk/pdf/islamic-revelation_glaser.pdf
http://www.ocms.ac.uk/transformation/results_authors.php?mm_aut=129