This much-needed overview of the Christian-Muslim encounter places the emphasis on the context within which perceptions and attitudes were worked out and provides a depth of historical insight to the complexities of current Christian-Muslim interactions on different continents.
Brings together primary texts from influential Jewish and Christian writers, providing an accessible overview of the major issues and movements in the Christian-Jewish dialogue. The book includes key topics such as anti-Semitism, Jesus, Israel, women and the Holocaust.
'A masterly survey ... indispensable for anyone working in the field.' Judith Lieu, Journal of Religious History
The question of how Christianity should approach other faiths has long been a vexed one. This book addresses a key themes with eleven essays from the uncompromising theology of Karl Barth, to the pluralism of John Hick, and containing an address from Pope John Paul II.
In 1492, the Jews of Spain were given a choice - convert to Christianity or be expelled from Spain. This calendar of Jewish cases brought before the Canariote Inquisition between 1499 and 1818 shows both the workings of the inquistion, and the lives of the crypto-Jews during their repression.
This text presents an international, multicultural and interfaith forum concerning the philosophical, theological and practical foundations of ethics in spiritual education for a rapidly changing world.
This volume details the inherent problems in the search for effective ways to enable different religious systems to co-exist peacefully in mutual complementarity. This has emerged as a necessary condition for economic development, social progress, human prosperity and even survival.
A number of people experience their own spiritual lives as being inspired by more than one religious tradition. This title looks at a number of issues involved: what it means theologically to move beyond tolerance towards a genuine appreciation of other religions, and how multi-religious identity can be assessed theologically.
The people of different faiths who constitute the multi-religious think-tank called 'Thinking Together are open to focusing together on some of the basic issues of belief and religion. This book carries a story from each religious tradition represented in the group, which reflects how that tradition has wrestled with how to look upon the other.
From the first point at which one faith tradition became aware of another, there has been inter-religious dialogue: a dialogue that can lead to a positive and rewarding flow of ideas between faiths, as Martin Forward shows in this introduction.
This volume's essays articulate and illustrate new ways of approaching contemporary moral concerns cross-culturally yet with a rigour appropriate to our complex and pluralistic world.
An evolutionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval Spain.
In this book, Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world prevalent in Anglo-Saxon England.
Theologically, how do people of different faiths find liberation in their separate gods simultaneously? Stephen Kaplan seeks to answer this question in this study, which is designed to present a model for religious pluralism that does not fall victim to the criticisms of pluralist models.