Christian dialogue with people of other living faiths and the world wide struggle for justice are the other two areas referred to in the process of globalization.
Not exact matches
The point is that if spirit - filled
Christians want to communicate effectively
with those who do not share such experiences, then they should heed the assumptions of the secularists, for it is a safe bet that if another
person's deepest presuppositions are ignored, the possibility for meaningful
dialogue diminishes rapidly.
The various themes of re-conceptualization that emanated in the new period includes mission as missio Dei, mission as «
Christian presence,» mission as «witness» in and to the six continents, mission as development, mission as liberation, mission in relation to
dialogue with people of other faiths and non faiths, mission as contextualization and inculturation.
Or from a
Christian process theological perspective transformed by inner and outer
dialogue with Kukai: God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot
with random
people, that we lose ourselves and turn from all that is not God.
How long will the
Christians and
people of the United States have to contemplate the incongruity of its government... as it supports
with over a million dollars a day another government that represses, kills bishops, religious workers, children, men and women, violates human rights, closes itself to
dialogue and obstructs the pastoral task of the churches?
He pursued this
dialogue at the highest theological level (right up to his then - secret meeting
with Paul VI in 1964) because he saw so well what happens to Christianity when
Christians lose contact
with the
people and the religion of Jesus.
Nevertheless the
Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith
dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom
with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse
peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.
Rather, the «above» is primarily in the fact that no culture is able to adequately express the
Christian faith, and therefore the concrete forms of Christianity as lived among the various
peoples need to be in
dialogue and communion
with one another.
The Kingdom of God is an inclusive and open reality, seeking to include
people irrespective of their sex, race, age and color; willing to reflect on and respond to needs and ideas beyond the
Christian community and thus entering into
dialogue and service
with all.
Christians have entered into serious
dialogue with people of other faiths only very recently.
At a conference in Japan, a pioneer of
Christian dialogue with tribal
peoples once observed that Western
Christians tend to be at ease only
with those adherents of other faiths who are as precise and sober as they are.
Christians committed to
dialogue with the
people who live according to other faiths can never be content
with the «library» versions of those traditions.
The certainty
with which the faith of many neighbors (including many
Christian neighbors) was thus disposed — by some of the very
people championing
dialogue — pressed the discussion beyond vague notions of «respect» for varying forms of faith toward a search for the appropriate criteria for such judgments.
«Thus, also in our century, the Lord, the Holy Spirit, has given us new initiatives
with new aspects of
Christian life: On being lived by human
persons with th ``... If the movements are really gifts of the Holy Spirit, they integrate and serve the Church, and in the patient
dialogue between pastors and movements a fruitful form is born, in which these elements become edifying elements for the Church of today and tomorrow