This e-book addresses concerns crucial to today’s Catholic Church, concentrating on the connection among a variety of religions in several contexts and areas internationally. the various array of participants current an inclusively interfaith company, investigating quite a lot of encounters and views. The essays contain ways from the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and Bahá’í traditions, in quite a few geographic contexts. participants ponder Muslims within the West, Christian-Buddhist social activism, and on chinese language, Indian, and eastern religions. the amount additionally explores the stories of groups which are usually marginalized and neglected akin to the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia and the Karen tribal peoples of Thailand. members study the works of the Focolare, Gülen, and Risshō Kōsei-kai routine, and combine the imaginative and prescient of Raimon Panikkar and Ken Wilber. Chapters contain discussions of discussion files reminiscent of Nostra Aetate and Dabru Emet, and methodologies equivalent to Receptive Ecumenism, Comparative Theology, and Scriptural Reasoning. between different pursuits, the e-book seeks to supply glimpses into interfaith dialogues internationally and look at what Christians can study from different religions and international contexts.
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