Jonathan Brown – Can Salvation be Found Outside of Islam

About this lecture

In this lecture, scholar Jonathan Brown tackles one of the most pressing questions facing Muslims in the West: what is the fate of non-Muslims in the eyes of God? Drawing on classical Islamic theology and the tradition of Islamic scholarship, he presents three major positions — the orthodox view that Islam is the only true path, the "moral theism" approach, and perennialism — carefully weighing the evidence and criticisms of each, before arriving at a nuanced conclusion grounded in the principles of divine mercy, the prohibition of judging individuals, and the certainty that God will not wrong any of His creation.