Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue
Ebook
What does Jesus have to do with Buddha? What does Muhammad have to do with Krishna? One of the most important tasks for theology in the twenty-first century is interreligious dialogue. Given the rapid process of globalization and the surge of information via the Internet, travel, and library networking today, interreligious dialogue has become a necessary element within Christian theology that no longer can be avoided. Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue features eleven essays, plus an extensive introduction, that exercise a live conversation between religious others. Divided into four thematic sections--(1) Catholic approaches to interreligious dialogue, (2) dialogues between Judaism and Christianity, (3) dialogues between Islam and Christianity, and (4) dialogues between Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity--this volume conducts a sustained theological reflection on the current state of interreligious dialogue by signaling its hopeful promises and unrelenting challenges. The reader will be invited to encounter the religious other firsthand and put his or her most cherished theological assumptions to the test. This book aims to provoke an expansion of horizons for theological imagination as it exposes the basic dialectic of identity and difference as played out in the interaction between diverse religious beliefs, practices, and experiences.
“This volume offers compelling arguments for the possible or
necessary synergy between proclamation of the truth of one’s own
religion and dialogue with other religious traditions. It
demonstrates that it is only through sincere and open grappling
with often conflicting claims to truth that dialogue will lead to
mutual edification and genuine theological growth.”
—Catherine Cornille, Boston College
“Vatican II is now several generations behind us, but we are still
catching up to its new understanding of the church, the world, and
the world’s many religions. Evangelization as Interreligious
Dialogue, perched between actualities of interreligious
dialogue and the needed renovation of Catholicism’s theology of
religions, adds another voice to the needed Catholic conversation
that must precede the interreligious learning to follow.
Naysayers—Catholic and in other traditions—scoff at the very idea
of interreligious learning, but this solid collection shows that it
will only gather speed over time, to the benefit of believers in
every tradition.”
—Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Harvard University
“Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue is an invitation
to take risks—to risk full commitment to our traditions, to
risk ourselves and our commitments in authentic
dialogue. Not sure it is possible to do both with
integrity? Start here.”
—Reid B. Locklin, University of Toronto
Product Details
- Title : Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue
- Authors:
- Cavadini, John C.
- Wallenfang, Donald
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Publication Date: 2019
- ISBN: 9781532652110
John C. Cavadini is the McGrath-Cavadini Director of the
Institute for Church Life and Professor of Theology at the
University of Notre Dame. He is the editor of several books, most
recently: Pope Francis and the Event of Encounter (Pickwick,
2018), Mary on the Eve of the Second Vatican Council (2017),
and Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI
(2012).
Donald Wallenfang, is a Secular Discalced Carmelite and Professor
of Theology and Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in
Detroit. He is the author of Metaphysics: A Basic Introduction
in a Christian Key (Cascade, 2019), Phenomenology: A Basic
Introduction in the Light of Jesus Christ (Cacade,
2019), Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist: An Étude
in Phenomenology (Cascade, 2017), Human and Divine Being: A
Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein (Cascade,
2017), and editor of Pope Francis and the Event of Encounter
(Pickwick, 2018).