Contemporary Muslim And Christian Responses To Religious Plurality

Author : Lewis E Winkler
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227900413

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Contemporary Muslim and Christian Responses to Religious Plurality by Lewis E Winkler Pdf

In our rapidly changing and progressively globalized world, Christians and Muslims are faced with the prospect of directly encountering and responding to people of other faiths and cultures. This has pushed us all to address the vital question of how best to live with, work beside, and love one another as fellow citizens of our planet. Using resources from Christian theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg, Muslim ethicist Abdulaziz Sachedina, and several others, Winkler argues that we must continually dialogue with one another - not only about the beliefs and practices held in common between us, but also about the ways in which we are distinctively different. Only then can we take the opportunity more comprehensively to understand, appreciate, and cooperate with each other to build just, moral, and cohesive communities of hope in our often uncertain and unsettling times.

Author : Paul Hedges
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472588555

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Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters by Paul Hedges Pdf

Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters: Developments, Diversity and Dialogues addresses the key issues in the present day global encounter between Christians and Muslims. Divided into two parts, the first examines theoretical issues and concerns which affect dialogue between the two traditions. The second part highlights case studies from around the world. Chapters come from established scholars including Reuven Firestone, Douglas Pratt and Clinton Bennett, emerging scholars, as well as practitioner perspectives. Highlighting the diversity within the field of "Christian-Muslim" encounter, case studies cover examples from the US and globally, and include dialogue in the US post 9/11, Nigerian Muslims and Christians, and Christian responses to Islamophobia in the UK. Covering unique areas and those not explored in detail elsewhere, Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters: Developments, Diversity and Dialogues will be of interest to advanced students, researchers, and interfaith professionals.

Author : Saeid Sobhani
Publisher : ICAS Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781907905551

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Religious Diversity in Contemporary Shi‘i Thought: The Views of Ayatollah ‘Abdollah Javadi-Amoli and Professor Mahmoud Ayoub by Saeid Sobhani Pdf

The question of religious diversity and the related issues of validity, truth, and salvation can immensely impact our lives in the modern closely-knit global society: they may help improve or ruin the relationships between faith communities. In the context of Christianity, these issues have led to the emergence of three types of theology: exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism. This book analyses the views of two contemporary Shi'i thinkers, Ayatollah 'Abdullah Javadi-Amoli and Professor Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub, who have tried to deal with the challenges posed by the above three types of theology from an Islamic perspective. The book discusses, among other things, the impact of the social and educational backgrounds of these two thinkers on their research methodologies, particularly, their ways of interpreting the Qur'an. Since both thinkers are nterested in the question of dialogue between people of different faiths, this inquiry also highlights the views of Ayoub and Javadi-Amoli on the question of dialogue, its common ground, goals, conditions, and presuppositions.

Author : Anthony J. Steinbronn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123290400

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Worldviews by Anthony J. Steinbronn Pdf

Author Anthony Steinbronn examines the postmodern perspective that views the Christian church as only one of many brands in the ideological supermarket. He critiques the position that Christianity no longer has ultimate truth but must take its place alongside numerous other religions. How should Christians respond in this pluralistic age? Steinbronn advocates that we need to know how different religions view the world, humanity's reason for existence, sin and its consequences, and eternal life. Armed with this knowledge, Christians can communicate the truth of God's Word to a world searching for truth and meaning. The book examines : Buddhism; Confucianism; Hinduism; Islam; Tribalism; Modernity.

Author : Salroo Arshad
Publisher : Prakharpravachanyt
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798210174512

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Islam S Response to the Challenges of Religious Pluralism by Salroo Arshad Pdf

Introduction We are living at the moment in an age in which access to the different religions of humankind is of unparalleled range and depth. There is of course a considerable variation from individual to individual in terms of how far people delve into the information about the world faiths which now lies so readily to hand. There remain some cultural enclaves which, either through choice or geographical isolation, are still relatively insulated against outside influences, but the main trends of histoiy, the major currents which puLsc through our time and bear us towards the future, arc inexorably pluralist in tendency. They promote a multifaceted awareness rather than securing the unchallenged dominance of any one religious way of seeing things. Moreover, beyond the immediate impulse of religious pluralism upon us, the resources of modern scholarship allow anyone with the time and inclination to do so to become immersed in an enormity of details about the different faiths. Specific exceptions could, obviously, be cited in the face of this push of generalizations. But utterly dwarfing the significance of these exceptions is the fact that our religious landscape has undergone seismic changes in the course of only a few generations. The principal landmark of the contemporary religious scene is the fact of our being informed (at whatever level) about, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism and so on, rather than knowing about only one religion. In such a situation, how do we decide which, if any, faith to follow? Which of their teachings speak to our particular situation? Which one offers a lens through which the confusion, complexity and apparent randomness of life might be refracted into some sustainable sense-giving vision, according to which we might live, our lives? It is one thing to be a Muslim a Christian a Buddhist or a Sikh and to be faced with the rich plurality of religions, which flourish around the globe. One will then have,

Author : Revd Dr David Pitman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472410924

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Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism by Revd Dr David Pitman Pdf

Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism begins with the recognition that the traditional three-fold typology adopted by Christians in responding to other living world religions is no longer adequate and offers a much more sophisticated and developed approach. This is accomplished with particular reference to ten key Twentieth Century theologians, each of whom had significant influence in the field of inter-religious studies, both during their lifetime and beyond. The author rejects the exclusivism and triumphalism of traditional Christian approaches and argues strongly and persuasively that the future for inter-religious relationships lies in what he describes as 'classical pluralism', and in an understanding of the importance of difference for inter-faith dialogue. Presenting an accessible introduction to the contemporary issues and challenges facing all those engaged in the further development of inter-faith relationships, dialogue and partnership between the world religions, Pitman argues that the future of world peace and prosperity depends on the outcome.

Author : Roger Boase
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317112631

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Islam and Global Dialogue by Roger Boase Pdf

At a time when the world is becoming increasingly interdependent, multi-cultural and multi-religious, the concept of religious pluralism is under assault as a result of hatred, prejudice and misunderstanding from both religious exclusivists and dogmatic secularists. In this important and timely book, twenty internationally acclaimed scholars and leading religious thinkers respond to contemporary challenges in different ways. Some discuss the idea of a dialogue of civilisations; others explore the interfaith principles and ethical resources of their own spiritual traditions. All of them reject the notion that any single religion can claim a monopoly of wisdom; all are committed to the ideal of a just and peaceful society in which people of different religions and cultures can happily coexist. More space is here given to Islam than to Judaism and Christianity because, as a result of negative stereotypes, it is the most misunderstood of the major world religions. HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan contributes the Foreword.

Author : Jane I. Smith,Jane Idleman Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195307313

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Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue by Jane I. Smith,Jane Idleman Smith Pdf

This volume looks at the history of encounter between the two religions, the types of dialogue that are taking place both locally and nationally, and the hope that conversation brings for better interfaith understanding.

Author : Wilbert R. Shenk,Richard J. Plantinga
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498282659

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Christianity and Religious Plurality by Wilbert R. Shenk,Richard J. Plantinga Pdf

Over the past two centuries the Christian faith has spread to all continents. Although more global than ever, Christians are religious minorities in most societies. Religious freedom is hardly universal. In the past fifty years, millions of people have been uprooted from their traditional homelands in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Some have emigrated to Western Europe and North America. The West has become the scene of cultural, linguistic, and religious variety on a scale unimagined in 1900. Today, the full range of faiths and religious practices from all continents are present in Europe and North America. Christians are challenged to come to terms with this changed situation. These developments have intensified religious plurality. Christians all over the world are being urged to understand and engage with this new situation. This volume highlights this new reality and specifies some sources for engagement, not least among them the Judeo-Christian scriptures--fundamental to all "Christianities"--that emerged out of religious plural contexts. On the basis of their faith in the Triune God disclosed in this text, all followers of Jesus Christ must interact with these opportunities in today's radically context-sensitive world.

Author : Harold G. Coward
Publisher : ONEWorld Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015050125833

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Pluralism in the World Religions by Harold G. Coward Pdf

Featuring coverage of all the major religions, this is a fascinating introduction to the manner in which each world faith views the others.

Author : Adnan Aslan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136110108

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Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy by Adnan Aslan Pdf

The philosophy of religion and theology are related to the culture in which they have developed. These disciplines provide a source of values and vision to the cultures of which they are part, while at the same time they are delimited and defined by their cultures. This book compares the ideas of two contemporary philosophers, John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, on the issues of religion, religions, the concept of the ultimate reality, and the notion of sacred knowledge. On a broader level, it compares two world-views: the one formed by Western Christian culture, which is religious in intention but secular in essence; the other Islamic, formed through the assimilation of traditional wisdom, which is turned against the norms of secular culture and is thus religious both in intention and essence.

Author : Mahmut Aydin
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1565181719

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Modern Western Christian Theological Understandings of Muslims Since the Second Vatican Council by Mahmut Aydin Pdf

Author : Jerusha Tanner Lamptey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199362783

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Never Wholly Other by Jerusha Tanner Lamptey Pdf

How does the Qur'an depict the religious Other? Historically, this question has provoked extensive debate among Islamic scholars about the identity, nature, and status of such religious Others. Today, this debate assumes great importance because of the widening experience of religious plurality, which prompts inquiry into convergences and divergences in belief and practice as well as controversy over the appropriate forms of interaction among different religions. The persistence of religious violence also gives rise to difficult questions about the relationship between the depiction of religious Others, and intolerance and oppression. Scholars have traditionally accounted for the coexistence of religious similarity and difference by resorting either to models that depict religions as isolated entities or models that arrange religions in a static, evaluative hierarchy. In response to the limitations of this discourse, Jerusha Tanner Lamptey constructs an alternative conceptual and hermeneutical approach that draws insights from the work of Muslim women interpreters of the Qur'an, feminist theology, and semantic analysis. She employs this approach to reevaluate, reinterpret, and reenvision the Qur'anic discourse on religious difference. Through a close reading of the Qur'anic text, she distinguishes between two forms of religious difference: hierarchical and lateral. She goes on to explore the complex relationality that exists among Qur'anic concepts of hierarchical religious difference and to articulate a new, integrated model of religious pluralism. Using an interdisciplinary approach to confront existing Islamic scholarship, Lamptey's Never Wholly Other offers a new genre of theology.

Author : Anthony O'Mahony,Emma Loosley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015077127432

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Christian Responses to Islam by Anthony O'Mahony,Emma Loosley Pdf

This is the only book currently on the market that attempts to construct a global perspective of Christian-Muslim interaction in a post-9/11 world.

Author : Margaret Chatterjee
Publisher : Bibliophile South Asia
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religious pluralism
ISBN : 8185002460

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Gandhi and the Challenge of Religious Diversity by Margaret Chatterjee Pdf

In this book the author relates Gandhi's response to the challenge of religious diversity to his awareness of other pluralities - social, economic and political. To Gandhi, religion was not an isolated marker of identity. Beginning with his own Hindu heritage, his relations with Muslims, Christians, Jains and Jews are presented as the basis for his faith that separate heritages could be shared and all could engage in common tasks. His early contact with non-theist thought systems in fin de siècle London, his strong reaction to Curzon's Convocation address in Calcutta University, the pedagogic implicate of the prayer meetings, his attitude to conversion, his special relation to Quakers, and why toleration was not enough, are some of the fresh perspectives offered. Philosophers of religion who analyse religious pluralism, students of modern Indian history, and the general reader concerned about the conflictual role that religion appears to have in the contemporary world, will not fail to find this new study of Gandhi fascinating.