Welcoming the Interfaith Future

«Frederick Quinn’s new book both warms and challenges. It warms with the theme of generous welcome, which he commends as an appropriate way for the worlds’ religions to engage one another. It challenges with a history of divided Christian response (Closed Door vs. Open Door), running from antiquity right up to the present. In our global context, in which practitioners of different faiths have so much more to do with one another, Dr. Quinn’s spirit points the way: a generosity that welcomes and learns, is enriched and enriching. Frederick Quinn has given us another wise book.» (Marilyn McCord Adams, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill, and former Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford University)

Frederick Quinn is an Episcopal priest, retired American diplomat, and author of fourteen books and over a hundred articles on religion, law, and history. He has spent over a decade in assignments in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean; holds three advanced degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles; and has taught courses in «Political Islam» and «Global Islam» at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Dr. Quinn has also served many parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Anglican congregations in Prague and Warsaw, and is presently a chaplain at Washington National Cathedral. His previous books include African Saints, Martyrs and Holy People, a Black Catholic Congress Book of the Month; The Sum of All Heresies: The Image of Islam in Western Thought; To Be a Pilgrim: The Anglican Ethos in History; and Building the «Goodly Fellowship of Faith»: A History of the Episcopal Church in Utah, 1867–1996.