If there is a religious service on Remembrance Sunday or Commonwealth Day is there any place in such services in a «Christian country» for the participation
of members of other faiths?
While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion
for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.
Uncertainty about the appropriate Christian attitude to other faiths has also meant that the church's welcome to
members of other faiths who have settled in Britain has been hesitant At times, the church has seemed defensively to want to hold on to its special role in British life.
If members of other faiths would need to «make some adjustments in belief,» how can everyone accept each other as fully Christians «in every sense»?
Should we make any theological statements today, even amongst ourselves, that will antecedently rule out the possibility of deeper conversation and eventual agreements with
sincere members of other faiths?
Secondly, Christians and Muslims need, together
with members of other faiths, to reflect on the values that they share and on the moral basis of a healthy society and a just and peaceful international order.
Hinduism, moreover, is not the only religion in India and it has seemed right to make some reference to what I have gained from talking to
some members of other faiths there.
The so - called «
members of other faiths» alluded to by Muslims and liberals like are nearly always just nominal members who have NO active involvement.
The so - called «
members of other faiths» alluded to by Muslims are nearly always just nominal members who have NO active involvement.
The so - called «
members of other faiths» alluded to by Muslims and liberal appeasers like you are nearly always just nominal members who have NO active involvement.
But a moment ago you alluded to a likeness in the pursuit of the spiritual life between Christians and
members of other faiths.
The Christians (and some of
the members of other faiths) argue the existence of God because of FAITH.
On the basis of his priorities, it can be argued that every local Christian congregation should be actively nourishing personal wholeness through contemplation, preparing people for transforming encounter with
members of other faiths, and training them in nonviolent spiritual resistance to the forces of destruction in our nuclear age.
I began with the Jewish experience not because it has a particular «relationship to fundamentalism» (Jews are no more or less fundamentalist than
members of any other faith), but because the Jewish experience tells us something crucial about modernity.