Synopses & Reviews
Interfaith Relations: A Guide for the Perplexed is a standard text for classroom use in universities and seminaries, while also appealing to a broad constituency of interested non-specialists. It incisively introduces and orients readers to the primary ways in which other religions have historically been understood in Christian theology, while then taking readers beyond such developments by considering the theological, social, and political reflections that are emerging from various forms of dialogue in practice today. Thus, the book is not only an introductory orientation to the topic; it points the way toward a constructive political theology that reflects current interfaith relations in practice.
Synopsis
An introductory orientation to interfaith relations, pointing the way toward a constructive political theology.
Synopsis
Interfaith Relations: A Guide for the Perplexed is a standard text for classroom use in universities and seminaries, while also appealing to a broad constituency of interested non-specialists.
It incisively introduces and orients readers to the primary ways in which other religions have historically been understood in Christian theology, while then taking readers beyond such developments by considering the theological, social, and political reflections that are emerging from various forms of dialogue in practice today.
Thus, the book is not only an introductory orientation to the topic; it points the way toward a constructive political theology that reflects current interfaith relations in practice.
Synopsis
An introductory orientation to interfaith relations, pointing the way toward a constructive political theology.
Synopsis
Interfaith Relations: A Guide for the Perplexed is a standard text for classroom use in universities and seminaries, while also appealing to a broad constituency of interested non-specialists.
It incisively introduces and orients readers to the primary ways in which other religions have historically been understood in Christian theology, while then taking readers beyond such developments by considering the theological, social, and political reflections that are emerging from various forms of dialogue in practice today.
Thus, the book is not only an introductory orientation to the topic; it points the way toward a constructive political theology that reflects current interfaith relations in practice.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction
Part I A Theology for Interfaith Understanding: A Brief Intellectual History of Christian Thought 1 Contested Voices: Counter-Narratives in Scripture and the Early Christian Tradition 2 The Birth of Modernity and the Idea of Implicit Faith 3 The Religious Other in Modern Theology
Part IIA Theology of Interfaith Practice Today: Friendship, Politics and Particularity 4 After the Religious Encounter: A New Direction for Inter-Faith Theology? 5 A Model of Praxis: Interfaith Scriptural Reasoning 6 Letting Religion Back In: Reconceiving Interfaith Theology and Reflection as a Political Practice ConclusionEpilogue