Martin Forward

Martin Forward is a British, Methodist Christian lecturer and author on religion and Professor of History at Aurora University, Illinois. He has taught Islam at the Universities of Leicester, Bristol and Cambridge, and had spent a period of time in India where he was ordained into the Church of South India. He was also a senior tutor and lecturer in Pastoral and Systematic Theology (Wesley House, Cambridge), and was a member of the Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity. Currently, he is the Executive Director of Aurora University's Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action and the Helena Wackerlin Professor of Religion,[1] and has participated in numerous Interfaith dialogues. He has authored a number of books related to Islam and Christianity, such as "Muhammad: A Short Biography" and "Jesus: A Short Biography" respectively.

Books
  • Muhammad: A Short Biography (1998). Oxford: Oneworld. ISBN 1-85168-131-0.
  • The Failure Of Islamic Modernism?: Syed Ameer Ali's Interpretation Of Islam (1999). Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 3-906762-38-6.
gollark: I did not mean that they're true statements describing the entire universe. Go with "unconditional truth" if you mean something different by "universal" too.
gollark: What?
gollark: Someone not understanding it doesn't make it false.
gollark: They're "universal truth" because they apply regardless of location etc. in the universe.
gollark: You can have "universal truth" with things like logical statements, where you can come up with things that are always true given some set of axioms. For physical/sciencey things you can just do "it's very unlikely for this to not be the case".

References
  1. Aurora University faculty Archived 2006-09-03 at the Wayback Machine
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