TARIQ RAMADAN has been described as one of the most influential Muslim theologians in the world today. His works are the subject of passionate analysis and debate. It was only natural that a theologian of the caliber of Gregory Baum should be interested in it. In the religion-secularism dialogue that is underway in the West, his work comes at the right time. It highlights the similarities between the Catholicism of the past and the Islam of today in the face of the many challenges of modernity. The great religious traditions today are faced with a major challenge: finding the difficult balance between tradition and modernity, between the heritage of the past and the duty to respond to the call of the present. It is this issue that mobilizes thinkers like Tariq Ramadan and Gregory Baum.

Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University and founder of The Ecumenist magazine, GREGORY BAUM is the author of numerous books, including Étonnante Eglise. The emergence of solidary Catholicism (Bellarmin).