Najib George Awad is associate professor of Christian theology and director of the International Ph.D. program at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. He is currently completing his habilitationsschrift in Arabic theology and early Christian-Muslim Kalam at the University of Marburgin Germany. He is the author of God without a Face?(2011), And Freedom Became a Public-Square (2012), and a forthcoming volume on Theodore Abu QurrahtitledOrthodoxy in Arabic Terms(2015).