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A Student's Notes on Inter-Faith Dialogue
Explanation
This subject was not really part of the course. However, Dr. Ritchie did make comments from time to time on inter-faith dialogue -- and how such dialogue, when successful, tended to deepen each dialoguer's faith (for example, making the Christian hold the Christian faith more deeply and simultaneously making the Muslim hold Islam more deeply) -- each helps the other to discover their own faith in a new and deeper sense
The purpose of my following notes (as a student) has been to pursue (in a preliminary way) this question of inter-faith dialogue at greater length (not only between Christianity and Islam but among all the world's major religions)
Elsewhere I have already discussed Asar Nafisi's "Dialogue Project" (between Islam and Christianity)
Contents
- Knitter, Paul F. One Earth Many Religions: Multifaith Dialogue & Global Responsibility. Orbis Books, 1995
- this author was suggested to me by a friend, Conrad Willemse, who is currently taking some type of comparative theological course in Toronto
- I got this book (and another Knitter book) from amazon.ca -- they've only just arrived and I've just started to read this first one
- however, Dr. Ian Ritchie is not to keen on Paul Knitter (or his frequent co-author, John Hick) and much prefers the work of Kenneth Cragg on inter-faith dialogue (hence see below)
- nevertheless, I have started to read the Knitter book -- and here are a few preliminary notes
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- Knitter, Paul F. No Other Name? A Critical survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions. Orbis Books, 1985
- got from amazon.ca -- just arrived but haven't started to read yet -- note (above) Dr. Ritchie's preference for Kenneth Cragg
- Cragg, Kenneth. A Muslim and a Christian in Dialogue
- this is the dialogue author that Dr. Ian Ritchie prefers
- just ordered from amazon.ca but haven't received yet
- Cragg, Kenneth. Muhammad and the Christian: A Question of Response
- author that Dr. Ian Ritchie prefers
- just ordered from amazon.ca but haven't received yet
- Cragg, Kenneth. Faiths in Their Pronounes: Websites of Identity
- author that Dr. Ian Ritchie prefers
- just ordered from amazon.ca but haven't received yet
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Website links
- Cross Meets Crescent: An Interview with Kenneth Cragg
- as mentioned above, Kenneth Cragg is a writer on this subject that Dr. Ian Ritchie favours -- somme books of Cragg's are listed further above -- the web link immediately above gives a useful review of Cragg's views
- Kenneth Cragg has been a major figure in Christian-Muslim conversations. He spent some 45 years in the Middle East as professor of philosophy, as a chaplain, and as assistant bishop in the anglican Archdiocese of Jerusalem.
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http://www.rodmer.com/UnderstandingIslam/InterFaith.html -- Revised Dec 17, 2004
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