There needs to be a genuine cross-party
dialogue with the people of Wales».
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.
Christians have entered into serious
dialogue with people of other faiths only very recently.
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».
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.
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.
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.
Rabshakeh is barred from
dialogue with the people of God.
By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of
dialogue with people of other faiths.
The report also speaks of
dialogue with people of other faiths.
Neither is mission simply
dialogue with people of other faiths in the hope of bringing them to Jesus.
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 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.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
Being able to say you are not comfortable
with a certain task, time frame, order, or suggestion opens the door for
dialogue and shows
people that you are open to talk but not willing to sacrifice the integrity
of your own work or the performance
of your company for the sake
of niceness.
The 9th
Dialogue was held in Singapore last week (4 - 6 June, 2010)
with defence officials from 28 countries attending, including the US Secretary
of Defence Robert Gates, the Deputy Chief
of the
Peoples» Liberation Army (PLA)
of China, the National Security Adviser
of India...
In addition to this training program, Starbucks will work
with the community to leverage existing programs that help connect young
people with internships, apprenticeships and jobs, and foster the type
of dialogue and engagement needed for continued social change.
This is one
of the problems that often hinders
dialogue with radical atheists (not sure you are one, but you did answer a question I posed to
people who believe God is a fantasy)-- rather than offer a defense they will attack in such a way as to obfuscate the purpose
of the original discussion.
If we open a
dialogue, we hope they will see that the rest
of people can live side by side
with us.
If we can not
dialogue with a variety
of people from a variety
of walks
of life — then we limit what we mean to the community around us.
It is in understanding
of this point that major Jewish thinkers such as Leo Baeck and Martin Buber came back to Germany after the war to engage in
dialogue with the German
people.
They've been very involved in interfaith
dialogues for many years; in fact, they're just the kind
of Muslims we should be looking at and encouraging
dialogue with because they've been doing it for 10 years... Some
people are trying to convince the Imam to focus on the multi-faith aspect
of this and perhaps dedicate the whole institution to the victims
of 9/11.
In about 2000/2001 I was in Austin to
dialogue about emerging ministry, and facilitate a «culture clash» simulation game based on values and beliefs
of people from the kinds
of «postmodern cultures» that I'd been interacting
with since the early 1990s.
But the
person who maintains
dialogue between the historical and the contemporary has relevance and perspective, and the meanings
with which he meets life will be a product
of the
dialogue.
Kelby Carlson, writing at Alastair's Adversaria, proposes a richer theological model
of disability as he brings his experience as a disabled
person «into
dialogue with two important concepts: the evangelical doctrines
of vocation and the theology
of the cross.»
Whenever pluralism becomes too content
with a relaxed model
of «
dialogue,» it can ignore the need for conflict and the actualities
of systematic distortions in the personal (psychosis), historical (alienation and oppression) and religious (sin) dimensions
of every
person, culture and tradition.
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.
Perhaps we are finally moving toward the cultivation
of an alternative way to do the nation's business
of forging one from many — namely,
dialogue:
people talking,
with moral passion,
with respect, and
with agreement that we fall or stand together.
Hence it implies both
dialogue and direction — the
dialogue of the
person with an «other» than he now is which gives him an intimation
of the direction he is meant to take.
(Ibid., p. 89) Only the philosophy
of dialogue makes possible an adequate picture
of what does in fact take place: the pupil grows through his encounter
with the
person of the teacher and the Thou
of the writer.
A debate in which the thoughts are not expressed in the way in which they existed in the mind but in the speaking are so pointed that they may strike home in the sharpest way, and moreover without the men that are spoken to being regarded in any way present as
persons; a conversation characterized by the need neither to communicate something, nor to learn something, nor to innuence someone, nor to come into connexion
with someone, but solely by the desire to have one's own self - reliance confirmed by making the impression that is made, or if it has become unsteady to have it strengthened; a friendly chat in which each regards himself as absolute and legitimate and the other as relativized and questionable; a lovers» talk in which both partners alike enjoy their own glorious soul and their precious experience — what an underworld
of faceless spectres
of dialogue!
Sure, there is more
dialogue than in a typical church, and it sounds more free - flowing, but it is still too «churchy» for most
of the
people I know here in the Northeast who want nothing to do
with «church.»
Thus all those who compose the one
People of God, both pastors and the general faithful, can engage in
dialogue with ever - abounding fruitfulness.
«A lot
of times in church we don't want to talk about those kinds
of things because it's uncomfortable, but there are so many
people in church who need to have that
dialogue with God that I had.
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.»
The method is invaluable in helping those experiencing painful losses to do their «grief work» by bringing into the open and perhaps finishing the energy - depleting inner
dialogue (usually
of guilt and anger)
with the lost
person.
Then the
person has the different parts
of the dream
dialogue with one another.
Because
of the above (cf. first sentence
of Chapter IV, «The Role
of the Church in the Modern World», beginning at para 40) the Council wanted to foster a respectful «
dialogue»
with the great mass
of people outside the Church «acknowledging their positive values» (57).
Preachers who understand that the Word seeks
dialogue with the body
of the faithful, even in the preparation and delivery
of the sermon, will so restructure their sermon preparation regimen and alter their rhetorical strategies that they make room for the whole
people of God in the pulpit.
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.
Those who have been directly impacted by the silence and even malice
of the Church have asked the faithful to engage in
dialogue with First Nations
peoples and to repudiate colonial attitudes and concepts.
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.
And the CDF and the Bishops must lead
people into a
dialogue with God, to understand human existence in the light
of God in his real presence
with us in the Church and her sacraments.»
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.
It is an honor to
dialogue with you on the important and timely subject
of Israel / Palestine, the land and the
people.
He added: «The most effective way to deal
with it is to accept that it is there, to educate ourselves as best we can about both the benefits and the risks
of online activity and to seek to engage our children and young
people in meaningful regular
dialogue about those issues.»
It would be just as easy to accept that many
people never will do this and you co-inhabit a world
with people of faith and mocking them is not the way to build up a
dialogue.
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.
When we truly listen to each other
with a heart to understand, it changes the
dialogue and, hopefully, reminds us that they are
people God created to be welcomed and loved into the family
of Christ.