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 Diplomatic Interreligious Dialogue in the Framework of Interreligious Relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
S. V. Melnik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
General Description ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
The Third ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Low Efficiency

The article examines the practice of interaction between the heads of religious communities which is referred to as “diplomatic interreligious dialogue”. One of the most common forms of the manifestation of diplomatic dialogue is participation of religious leaders in a variety of interreligious summits and conferences. The first part of the article briefly describes main types of interreligious dialogue: polemical, cognitive, peacemaking and partner ship. The second part gives a general description of diplomatic interreligious dialogue that can be considered as one of a type of peacemaking dialogue. The third part of the article analyzes several critical arguments in relation to diplomatic dialogue: this form of communication cannot be called a dialogue in the true sense; predominance of secular discourse; low efficiency. The author has come to the conclusion that diplomatic dialogue occupies its niche in the system of interreligious relations. And it is incorrect to evaluate diplomatic dialogue from the point of view of other types of interreligious dialogue that pursue different goals and are based on different principles.

Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anh Q. Tran
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Rich Picture ◽  
Minority Religion ◽  
Confucian Scholar

Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has constituted a significant presence in the country since its arrival in the sixteenth century. This translation and analytical study of a 1752 document entitled Tam Giáo Chư Vọng [Errors of the Three Religions] adds to the knowledge of its early history within its cultural and religious contexts. This anonymous manuscript paints a rich picture of the three traditional Vietnamese religions (Tam Giáo), i.e., Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. Aiming at the new converts, the writer describes the “errors” (Chư Vọng) of these traditional beliefs and religious practices and provides an apologetics for the Christian doctrines. Structured as a dialogue between a Christian priest and a Confucian scholar, the work explains and evaluates many religious customs and rituals of eighteenth-century Vietnam—many of which are still in practice today. In addition, it contains a trove of information on the challenges and struggles that Vietnamese Christian converts had to face in following the new faith. Beside its enormous historical value for studies on Vietnamese religions, language, and culture, this manuscript raises contemporary and highly complex issues concerning the encounter between Christianity and other religions, Christian missions, religious pluralism, interreligious dialogue, and the dialogue between Christianity and cultures.

The Faiths of Others

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Albert Howard
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

In recent decades, organizations committed to interreligious or interfaith dialogue have proliferated, both in the Western and non-Western worlds. Why, how so, and what exactly is interreligious dialogue? These are the touchstone questions of this book, the first major history of interreligious dialogue in the modern age. The book narrates and analyzes several key turning points in the history of interfaith dialogue before examining, in the conclusion, the contemporary landscape. While many have theorized about and/or practiced interreligious dialogue, few have attended carefully to its past, connecting its emergence and spread with broader developments in modern history. Interreligious dialogue — grasped in light of careful, critical attention to its past — holds promise for helping people of diverse faith backgrounds to foster cooperation and knowledge of one another while contributing insight into contemporary, global religious pluralism.

scholarly journals "Salvation is from the Jews" (Jn 4:22): Aquinas, God, and the People of God

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fainche Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Jewish People ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Interfaith Relations ◽  
The People ◽  
The Image Of God

Some believe that Pope Benedict XVI approaches interfaith relations more from the point of view of social, cultural and political cooperation than that of theological dialogue. This approach is deemed unsatisfactory by Daniel Madigan, an eminent speaker on interfaith matters. Madigan suggests that interreligious dialogue must be theological if it is to lead peoples of different faiths into deeper relationship with one another. This article will seek to illustrate the importance of this approach by a return to the thought of St Thomas Aquinas, considered by many to be the greatest medieval theologian. Serious dialogue with those of other faiths is not something new. Thomas engaged with thinkers from all traditions to whom he had access–Muslim, Jewish, pagan. His work shows not a fear of a diminution of his own faith through engagement with the “other” but an attempt to deepen it through the “others” experience of the Divine. Focusing specifically on his engagement with the Jewish people, Aquinas’ thoughts on the complex issues of predestination and election will be presented, with particular attention being given to his Commentary on Romans. The image of God with which he works shall be identified as key to his dialogue. It is the suggestion of this article that the image of God, of the Divine, with which one works is central to all engagement in interreligious dialogue, and herein may lie some of our problems, as well as rich potential for fruitful, truthful engagement.

Karl Barth's Theology of Reconciliation in Dialogue with a Theology of Religions

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-228
Author(s):  
Paul Chung
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Theology Of Religions ◽  
The World ◽  
Theology Of Mission ◽  
God's Mission ◽  
Conservative Evangelical ◽  
Christian Witness

AbstractKarl Barth has influenced Christian theology of mission in terms of his Trinitarian concept of God's mission. His theology of reconciliation retains inter-religious implication in missional context. However, Barth's theology of reconciliation is not explored in the context of religious pluralism. The reason is due to the neo-orthodox charge against him and theologians' one-sided critique of Barth as a conservative-evangelical theologian. In this paper at issue is to retrieve hermeneutically Barth as a theologian of reconciliation who stands for Christian witness to the grace of God in the world of religions.

Missio Inter Gentes: Towards a New Paradigm in the Mission Theology of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC)

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Tan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Dialogical Approach ◽  
Mission Theology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Sitz Im Leben ◽  
Theology Of Mission

AbstractThis essay seeks to investigate the mission theology of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) as presented in its official documents during the past three decades of its existence and evaluate its implications. In its official documents, the FABC has proceeded on the basis that the Asian milieu, with its rich diversity and plurality of religions, cultures and philosophical worldviews require a distinctively Asian approach to the proclamation of the Gospel that is sensitive to such diversity and pluralism. To this end, this essay surveys and examines the principal aspects and foundational principles of the FABC's theology of mission. It also explores the implications of the FABC's missiological approach for meeting the challenges of the task of carrying out the Christian mission in the diverse and pluralistic Asian Sitz-im-Leben, especially the FABC's consistent insistence that the Christian mission in Asia is best carried out through a threefold dialogue with the myriad of Asian religious traditions, Asian cultures and the teeming masses of Asian poor and marginalized. It then suggests that the FABC's missiological approach is best described as missio inter gentes (mission among the nations) rather than the traditional missio ad gentes (mission to the nations), because of how the FABC perceives the issue of religious pluralism in Asia and its preferred non-confrontational dialogical approach for dealing with it.

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.

Global Philosophy of Religion and its Challenges

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujin Nagasawa
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Global Theology ◽  
Meta Theory

This chapter argues that if the philosophy of religion is to take religion seriously, it must expand its focus and incorporate a wide range of religious perspectives. The chapter develops a ‘global philosophy of religion’ by critically assessing two earlier attempts to transform the philosophy of religion: Ninian Smart’s ‘philosophy of worldviews’ and John Hick’s ‘global theology’. The global philosophy of religion is more constructive than these two approaches because it emphasizes common issues that philosophers in distinct traditions can tackle together. Moreover, the global philosophy of religion moves beyond interreligious dialogue without demanding commitment to any controversial meta-theory, such as religious pluralism or religious inclusivism.

A Reply to Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s Response

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-275
Author(s):  
Tony Richie
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Theology Of Religions ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Further Development

AbstractThis reply to Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen further affirms the importance of work in the theology of religions for Pentecostals and Charismatics today that first prompted the author’s original inquiry into the views of a major early Pentecostal leader, Bishop J.H. King, concerning interfaith encounter and understanding. This dialogue with Kärkkäinen supports suggestions that an overall program of rediscovering, reclaiming, restoring, and revisioning our Pentecostal theology of religions heritage seems advisable. King’s obviously optimistic theology of religions, however, must be carefully distinguished from pluralism and set in the context of its Wesleyan roots and Evangelical emphases. Further development of what King provides in embryonic form is demanded. King represents an optimistic but still Christocentric strain shared by other Pentecostals within early stages of the movement. Not at all amounting to an uncritical approbation of world religions, this revolutionary discovery does decidedly enlarge understandings of Christ’s lordship beyond the pale of any particular religion. Careful terminology in order to avoid misunderstanding is called for and conceded. Pentecostal hypersensitivity regarding theology of religions highlights the need for constant clarification of contrariness to liberal religious pluralism. King’s legacy invalidates any assumption that earlier (older) Pentecostal resources on religions are exclusively pessimistic. Implications are immense for Christian mission and interreligious relations.

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