The two groups maintained that the release of those being held by security agencies would signal government's readiness to engage
in dialogue with the people.
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.
«Once we get through issues of shortening of the feast, then we can sit down and have a
real dialogue with people that have concerns,» he added.
In a way, your cover letter is the piece that facilitates your
first dialogue with the person responsible for screening applicants for the job you want.
While in recent years churches have given more attention to
dialogue with people of other faiths, much of the initiative has come from individuals and unofficial organizations.
In my recommendations, below, I identify three key ways in which the Australian Government can respond to my invitation to engage
in dialogue with our peoples.
[A] ttorneys giving seminars to the public can not engage in
dialogue with people who come up to them after the seminar asking legal questions.
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:
The works unfold histories and cultural identities by
opening dialogues with people whose testimonies elaborate on portraits of their individual and collective memories, desires, opinions and experiences amidst the construction of time.
Sincere
dialogue with people whose convictions are different from ours would broaden the horizon of our spiritual commitment to Christ.
«I think to actually get
into dialogue with people who at the moment don't seem to have any aim other than causing mass casualties, no clear way ahead, I think would be wrong,» he said.
Jesus often referred in his conversations /
dialogues with people as «My son», My daughter» etc. depending on who it was he was talking to.
Regarding teaching Scripture, I once heard a person say, «We need to exegete the culture so we can
dialogue with people through the metanarrative of Scripture.»
In his address to the New Delhi Assembly of the WCC in 1961, Thomas spoke of Christ being present in the world of today engaged in a
continuous dialogue with the peoples and nations.
The truly intimate God of revelation
wishes dialogue with persons, and abhors a religious slavery that in turn invokes the accusation against the divine that we can observe, for example, in the writings of Nietzsche and Sartre.
When he leads persons in a study of our passage from the Sermon on the Mount, master teacher Walter Wink asks them to do the following: Bring into consciousness an enemy; conduct an
imaginary dialogue with that person, in which you accuse him or her of the evil he or she seems to intend, imagining what he or she might say in response; then pray for the well - being of that person.
The difficulty we have in discerning God's will, the traps for us from our own arrogance and selfishness, which make us mistake our own will for God's will, can be overcome by fellowship among churches in the ecumenical movement, by
witnessing dialogue with people of other philosophical and religious convictions.
Since Vatican II, the Catholic church, both at international and national levels, has actively
pursued dialogue with people of all faiths, whilst continuing to proclaim Christ as «the way, the truth and the life».
I was overjoyed and inspired to
dialogue with people about so many of the subjects about which I'm passionate - family, belonging, race, identity, adoption, self - worth, parenting...
Christians committed to
dialogue with the people who live according to other faiths can never be content with the «library» versions of those traditions.
In an interview with Premier Christianity, Monsignor Halík, who is committed to engaging
in dialogue with people of different beliefs and cultural traditions, said he received the award on behalf of his teachers, many of whom suffered under the Soviet regime.
Because much recent thinking on this matter has been generated by individual theologians, the World Council of Churches» unit on
Dialogue with People of Living Faiths called a consultation of 25 Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians in Baar, Switzerland, in January to ask if there is an emerging consensus among those who have been wrestling with these questions.
«If the person is a valued team member and you want to see them succeed, open
a dialogue with the person, stick to the facts and try to refrain from jumping to any conclusions based on those facts,» suggests Dr. Boyd.
Martin Buber remained a Jew to all but the most anxiously orthodox, yet his I and Thou spelled out terms of
dialogue with people of other faiths and of no faith.
Come face to face and
dialogue with people.
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.
They are not afraid to be ambitious for Christ whether that is in promoting a culture of life, or in supporting the family as a basic building block of society, or in
dialogue with people of other faiths or with secularists.
With regard to
dialogue with people of other faiths, the report said:
The concept of salvation impinges on many issues which are discussed in the ecumenical movement, for example,
the dialogue with the people of other faiths and with humanists and Marxists.
Cobb (1982b p. 21) draws attention to a statement from a World Council of Churches consultation on
dialogue with people of living faiths in 1971 which said «Dialogue thus involves the risk of one partner being changed by the other.
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.