James L. Heft
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199769308
- eISBN:
- 9780190258283
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199769308.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This introductory chapter briefly sets out the book's purpose: to demonstrate one facet of what might be described as one of the best things of our own time: serious and sustained interreligious ...
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This introductory chapter briefly sets out the book's purpose: to demonstrate one facet of what might be described as one of the best things of our own time: serious and sustained interreligious dialogue. The chapters in this volume represent the ongoing effort of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California to break new ground in interreligious dialogue. They are actually the fruit of the third interreligious conference organized by the Institute. The chapter then discusses the concept of learned ignorance; preparations for the trialogue held at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem in June of 2007; global events that have advanced serious interreligious dialogue; and new Muslim initiatives for dialogue.Less
This introductory chapter briefly sets out the book's purpose: to demonstrate one facet of what might be described as one of the best things of our own time: serious and sustained interreligious dialogue. The chapters in this volume represent the ongoing effort of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California to break new ground in interreligious dialogue. They are actually the fruit of the third interreligious conference organized by the Institute. The chapter then discusses the concept of learned ignorance; preparations for the trialogue held at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem in June of 2007; global events that have advanced serious interreligious dialogue; and new Muslim initiatives for dialogue.
Elizabeth Groppe
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199769308
- eISBN:
- 9780190258283
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199769308.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter weaves together the author's close reading of Augustine's Confessions and the author's account of visiting the holy sites of Jerusalem with her Jewish and Muslim trialogue companions. ...
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This chapter weaves together the author's close reading of Augustine's Confessions and the author's account of visiting the holy sites of Jerusalem with her Jewish and Muslim trialogue companions. This is done in order to show how humility purifies religious believers and creates a greater capacity for dialogue. She recalls how early in his life Augustine, as a student of rhetoric, admired men who were more embarrassed by a lapse in grammar than they were by their elaborately crafted paeans to lust. Neo-Platonism helped Augustine escape the Manichaeism of his youth, but did not provide him the affective power he needed for his conversion. That power he finally found in the humility and human suffering of the Word Incarnate.Less
This chapter weaves together the author's close reading of Augustine's Confessions and the author's account of visiting the holy sites of Jerusalem with her Jewish and Muslim trialogue companions. This is done in order to show how humility purifies religious believers and creates a greater capacity for dialogue. She recalls how early in his life Augustine, as a student of rhetoric, admired men who were more embarrassed by a lapse in grammar than they were by their elaborately crafted paeans to lust. Neo-Platonism helped Augustine escape the Manichaeism of his youth, but did not provide him the affective power he needed for his conversion. That power he finally found in the humility and human suffering of the Word Incarnate.
John K. Roth
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198725336
- eISBN:
- 9780191792663
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198725336.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Nothing reveals the failures of ethics more than awareness that “You shall not murder” is the most important ethical imperative of all. Human civilization depends on it. So does the value of ...
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Nothing reveals the failures of ethics more than awareness that “You shall not murder” is the most important ethical imperative of all. Human civilization depends on it. So does the value of religion, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In one way or another, all three of those traditions affirm that murder is wrong. It violates God’s commandment. Is it possible, crucial even, for Jews, Christians, and Muslims to explore whether God’s injunction against murder provides a foundation for trialogue that could benefit those traditions individually, in relation to each other, and in ways that might bring about changes that would help to rectify the failures of ethics?Less
Nothing reveals the failures of ethics more than awareness that “You shall not murder” is the most important ethical imperative of all. Human civilization depends on it. So does the value of religion, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In one way or another, all three of those traditions affirm that murder is wrong. It violates God’s commandment. Is it possible, crucial even, for Jews, Christians, and Muslims to explore whether God’s injunction against murder provides a foundation for trialogue that could benefit those traditions individually, in relation to each other, and in ways that might bring about changes that would help to rectify the failures of ethics?
