Indigenization of the churches is one theological program; others are theology of
dialogue with other religions, and theology of religions.
The real struggle in all religious communities is for spiritual reformation opening themselves to enter into
dialogue with other religions and with secular humanist ideologies regarding the nature and rights of the human person and the meaning of social justice enabling to build together a new spiritually - oriented humanism and a more humane society.
All this also requires encounter and
dialogue with other religions in the region that aim at discovering through their respective heritages, a common ethical ground for the basis of a new society» (Human Rights: a Global Ecumenical Agenda, WCC 1993 p. 44).
The Vatican body responsible for
dialogue with other religions said expressed «great concern» about the plan by Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida.
Is honest
dialogue with other religions possible as long as the cards of conversation are stacked in such a way as to make the dialogue partner's position inferior to ours from the start?
And more mystifying still, while the one (the necessity of a Christian Word to a culture in mortal distress) seems to call for a sure, a clear and a well - founded Christian theology of history, the other (the necessity of
dialogue with other religions) seems to relativize, though it can not in the end dissolve, any particular religion's answer to culture's problems.
This essay builds upon those papers by showing the relevance of
a dialogue with other religions — in this instance a dialogue with Zen Buddhism — to a deepening of Christian ecological consciousness.
Not exact matches
Different organizations will highlight different issues: Some Jewish leaders will be most concerned
with anti-Semitism, Vatican relations
with Israel, and the Israeli - Palestinian conflict;
others will focus on interfaith
dialogue on theology and history;
others will discuss social and economic policy, and the place of
religion in politics and the public square.
In his first encyclical, issued while the Council was still finding its way, Paul VI called for a Church in
dialogue with other churches,
with other religions, and
with secular humanists, but called attention to the virtual impossibility of
dialogue with atheistic communism.
Charles Long, a black historian of
religion, has long sought to widen the scope of black theology so as to include serious
dialogue with African, Islamic, and
other non-Western and traditional
religions.
It is interesting to observe that while preparing for the centenary celebrations of the 1893 World Congress of
Religions of Chicago, Metropolitan Paulose Mar Gregorios said that Chicago 1993 Global Concourse of
Religions must «be committed not just to
dialogue with each
other but to the future of humanity as a whole».
Finally, Stanley I. Samartha of India, who is director of the WCC's program on
Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies, sums up the new attitude toward
other religions by asserting:
And the
dialogue between
religions is not a strategy for making one truth triumphant, but a process of looking for it and deepening it along
with others.
Together
with subsequent guidelines, the principles advanced in this essay have governed Orthodox Judaism's policy regarding «
dialogue»
with other religions, most notably the Roman Catholic Church.
In our
dialogue with other traditions, the key to sustaining conversation (rather than cutting it short by claims that
others will interpret as arrogant) is to keep before ourselves the possibility that in some way or
other all
religions may be relative, culturally specific ways of looking toward an ineffable mystery.
Nevertheless, stirrings or «preambles» of faith, to which the Synod Propositions refer (see page 21), can provide a basis for the
dialogue that the Synod advocates
with secular humanists, scientists, and people of
other religions.
The
dialogue of
religion with culture, be it
with science or social issues or any
other aspect of culture, is a two - way affair.
In practice, we can guard against misconceptions of God's will through ecumenical
dialogue, not only
with other Christians, but also
with other cultures and
religions.
As we enter into
dialogue with adherents of
other religions, we must be courteous and kind.
The present dispute brings the issues and differences among
religions out in the open so that the genuine Christian has to dialogue with the genuine Jew, the true Muslim, the best Hindu and the real Buddhist...» (concluding paragraph of Edmund Perry, The Gospel in Dispute: The Relation of Christian Faith to Other Missionary Religions [New York, 19
religions out in the open so that the genuine Christian has to
dialogue with the genuine Jew, the true Muslim, the best Hindu and the real Buddhist...» (concluding paragraph of Edmund Perry, The Gospel in Dispute: The Relation of Christian Faith to
Other Missionary
Religions [New York, 19
Religions [New York, 1958]-RRB-.
Perhaps the most unexpected lesson I have learned in the
dialogue with people of
other religions is how important it is for me to keep in touch
with those of my own faith community who remain suspicious and fearful of that
dialogue.
«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or
religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «
dialogue»
with Christian - European, or any
other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.
Please join us for refreshments and conversation
with others interested in the
dialogue on science, ethics and
religion at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting reception.
Activities conducted under this program include: Development Discourse Pluralism and Peace Building (Formation of ulti - ethnic self - help groups, Pancasila Forum, Cultural
Dialogue and Intercultural Dialogue, Development of sermon of various religion with Peace issues, Interactive Dialogue on the Radio, Campaign for Peace and Democracy Development Through Various Media); Cultural revitalization («Mosehe» Culture of Tolaki Ethnic Group, Inter-religion dialogue); Other activities (Working jointly to build a places of worship, building Peace Monument, Performing Arts and Sports, economic act
Dialogue and Intercultural
Dialogue, Development of sermon of various religion with Peace issues, Interactive Dialogue on the Radio, Campaign for Peace and Democracy Development Through Various Media); Cultural revitalization («Mosehe» Culture of Tolaki Ethnic Group, Inter-religion dialogue); Other activities (Working jointly to build a places of worship, building Peace Monument, Performing Arts and Sports, economic act
Dialogue, Development of sermon of various
religion with Peace issues, Interactive
Dialogue on the Radio, Campaign for Peace and Democracy Development Through Various Media); Cultural revitalization («Mosehe» Culture of Tolaki Ethnic Group, Inter-religion dialogue); Other activities (Working jointly to build a places of worship, building Peace Monument, Performing Arts and Sports, economic act
Dialogue on the Radio, Campaign for Peace and Democracy Development Through Various Media); Cultural revitalization («Mosehe» Culture of Tolaki Ethnic Group, Inter-
religion dialogue); Other activities (Working jointly to build a places of worship, building Peace Monument, Performing Arts and Sports, economic act
dialogue);
Other activities (Working jointly to build a places of worship, building Peace Monument, Performing Arts and Sports, economic activities)