On Donkey Drivers, Interreligious Dialogue, and Shared Tasks: A Jewish Response to Pope Francis on Interreligious Relations and Collaboration

2018 ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Debbie Young-Somers
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Interreligious Relations

scholarly journals What the Catholic Church Has Learnt from Interreligious Dialogue

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
Boston College ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Jewish Learning ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
The Catholic Church

Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, M.Afr. until recently served as the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in the Vatican. In February 2006 he was appointed by Pope Bendedict XVI to be the apostolic nuncio to Egypt and the Holy See's delegate to the League of Arab States. This address was delivered at the conference "In Our Time: Interreligious Relations in a Divided World," co-sponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College and Brandeis University to mark the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate. It was given at Brandeis University on March 16, 2006. In it, Archbishop Fitzgerald first discusses theological advances arising from interreligious dialogue, focusing on the interrelatedness of the Trinity as the basis and model for dialogue. He then turns to consider the necessary conditions for dialogue, the varied content of dialogue, the conduct of dialogue in its multiplicity of forms, and the structures necessary for the continuity of dialogue.

Interreligious Relations with No Self: A Mystical Path to Omnilogue?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
RAFAL K. STEPIEN
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Textual Study ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Interreligious Relations

Abstract Various models of interreligious relations have been proposed in recent scholarship, including most prominently the several varieties of inclusivism, exclusivism, and pluralism. One abiding presupposition shared across these models takes the religious adherent (or community of adherents) as a unified individual (or collective of such individuals). This assumption overlooks an important feature of the mystical strains of religiosity, which is to negate selfhood. This article seeks to problematize standard scholarly models of interreligious relations by working through and applying to them such mystical understandings of (non-)selfhood, with particular focus on the Islamic mystics Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭamī, Abū l-Qāsem al-Junayd, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin al-Qushayrī, Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār Nayshābūrī, and Muḥyiddīn Ibn al-ʿArabī. Based on this textual study, I propose an alternative to interreligious dialogue more adequately termed ‘polyglot monologue’ or, in order to avoid pluralistic implications, ‘omnilogue’.

scholarly journals A CATHOLIC VIEW OF INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE IN THE TIME OF POPE FRANCIS

2019 ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
Mato Zovkić
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Role Of Religion

The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) drew the attention of Catholics to human dignity of non-Christian believers who have right to their religious identity. After the Council Popes Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI established and supported the Pontifical Council for Interreligious dialogue with the task to study other religions as they perceive themselves and to organize friendly encounters with their representatives. Pope Francis, elected on 13 March 2013, brought into his ministry the experience of a Church leader in South America. This is why in his teaching documents, encounters and discourses he points out the social role of religion (Evangelii Gaudium, nos 176-258), the need for preserving environment as our common home (Laudato si, 199-245) and special pastoral care of couples in mixed marriages as believers who can practice interreligious dialogue by persevering in their religious affiliation (Amoris Laetitia, 247-248). On his apostolic journeys to Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Egypt he met representatives of civil authorities and Muslim religious leaders. Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al Tayeb gave him the opportunity to address the Muslim participants at the Peace Conference in Cairo on 28 April 2017. Pope Francis’s acts and speeches can inspire Religious Education teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina to develop respective religious identities in their students by preserving shared values and introducing them to universal ethics.

scholarly journals Faith Embodied in Attitudes: Ethics of Dialogue and Brotherhood of All People in the ‘Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together’ in Abu Dhabi and the Encyclical Fratelli Tutti

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-81
Author(s):  
Denisa Červenková ◽  
Petr Vizina
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Ethical Approaches ◽  
Specific Culture

This text is concerned with the ethical approach of inter-faith relations and the dialogue of culture in two documents of Pope Francis: ‘On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together’ and the encyclical Fratelli Tutti. This ethical approach refers to God the Creator of all and the call to brotherhood of all human beings and refers to faith as a response to Revelation. Faith also forms ethical approaches for interreligious dialogue. Pope Francis’ approach in the documents is that the theological truth and values of religious traditions are embodied in attitudes of social friendship. Francis challenges us to build a specific environment that he calls a ‘new culture of dialogue’, having frequently called for the growth of a culture of encounter that is capable of transcending political and social barriers and encourages creating a specific culture of social and ‘political love’.

scholarly journals Natural law and human rights

ADVOCATUS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (29) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander González García
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Common Word ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Common Base ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article studies the proposal of the Catholic Church towards a common base for interreligious dialogue. For the Church, dialogue with other religions can not be based on the commandments of love, as Muslim leaders suggest in their document "A Common Word" (2007), because it is an exclusive idea between Christians and Muslims; that is why the Church presents in several documents the idea of the natural law as a common pillar for all people, believers and non-believers, since God has provided humanity with reason, and this can guide human beings towards common benefit. This article analyzes the natural law as a valid means for interreligious relations.

scholarly journals The Many Shapes of Interreligious Relations in Contemporary Spain

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-341
Author(s):  
Mar Griera
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Current Growth ◽  
Religious Coexistence ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
The Many ◽  
Contemporary Spain

Abstract The idea of interreligious dialogue has gained worldwide traction in the last decades and has been promoted as a key component for religious peace. The aim of the article is to examine how interreligious aspirations and practices crystallize in different settings – namely diplomacy, governance and activism – and are shaped by the particular historical and political dynamics of each of these settings. The article explains how the plasticity of the idea of interreligious dialogue contributes to foster its popularity across different domains while serving to convey a wide range of meanings and expectations regarding interreligious pasts, presents and futures. Geographically, the article focuses on Spain and is based on qualitative fieldwork. The article shows that there have been considerable efforts to promote interreligious initiatives and that the global interreligious narrative has been re-fashioned locally, by including the idea of Al-Andalus as a lighthouse. However, the image of Spain and its history, as a foundational space for interreligious dialogue and multi-religious coexistence is contested by the current growth of extreme-right movements, and parties re-claiming the Christian foundational narrative of the country put this kind of initiative in peril.

scholarly journals The Importance of Interreligious Dialogues on Ethics and Law: A Global Percpective

Illuminatio ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-203
Author(s):  
Ingeborg Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Faith Traditions ◽  
Peace And Reconciliation

The present article pleads for the revival of an interreligious dialogue on ethics and law as an instrument of peace and reconciliation. Whereas the first phase of IRD was marked by a considerable prominence of these topics, the have become of less importance in the second phase. This needs correction for two reasons. Theoretically the rationality of dogmatic or systematic insights (as found in all faith traditions) is largely exclusive, whereas the rationality of ethics, also religiously founded ethics, is basically inclusive. It is therefore open to dialogue. There exists considerable common ground on norms, rules and values between religious traditions, which are to serve humans, the society and the political community. This is of particular importance in today’s multi-religious societies as well as in a world more than ever interconnected by globalization. The article concludes with an analysis of the document on Human Fraternity of Pope Francis and Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb and its ethical approach to dialogue.

A Theology of Interreligious Relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-334
Author(s):  
Terry C. Muck
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theology Of Mission ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Intercultural Theology

A review of volume 3, A Theology of Interreligious Relations, of Henning Wrogemann’s three-volume Intercultural Theology. This work is a textbook appropriate for courses in the theology of mission, religious pluralism, and interreligious dialogue. It focuses especially on the problems of interreligious relations, both peaceful and conflictual, from a Christian point of view.

scholarly journals Interreligious dialogue in local communities: Belgrade example

Sociologija ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-280
Author(s):  
Srdjan Barisic
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Certain Answers

Within the interreligious dialogue research which was implemented between 2003 and 2005, there were seven religious representatives interviewed. All of the seven religious communities were settled in Belgrade. According to the certain answers given in the structured interviews, the author has tried, in this article, to make concise intersection of the interreligious relations within the capital of Serbia.

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