The Abrahamic Religions: the prospects for their inter-relations Dr Edward Kessler
Theology & the Search for Common Ground Jesus the Jew Geza Vermes E P Sanders
Theology & the Search for Common Ground The Muslim Jesus: David Burrell:
Theology & the Search for Common Ground Shared Scripture • Exegetical encounters • Bible Study (inc Scriptural reasoning)
Theology & the Search for Common Ground Dialogue Theologians Martin Buber Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1878 -1965) (1916 -2000)
Theology & the Search for Common Ground Encounters with Islam • A Common Word • A Call to Dialogue
Theology & the Search for Common Ground Responses to the Shoah • Antisemitism and the adversus iudaeos tradition • Violent scripture
Organisations and Official Statements 1927 • London Society of Jews and Christians • National Conference of Christians and Jews NCCJ (National Conference for Community and Justice)
Organisations and Official Statements 1942 – Council of Christians and Jews 1947 – International Council of Christians and Jews and the Ten Points of Seelisberg 1948 – World Council of Churches • Guidelines on Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies, 1979
Organisations and Official Statements 1962– 5 - Vatican II & Nostra Aetate
Organisations and Official Statements • Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews (Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity) • Pontifical statements on Jews and Judaism: 1975, 1985, 1998 and 2001. • Dabru Emet (2000) • The Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims (Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue)
Organisations and Official Statements 1988 – Anglican Communion • Jews, Christians and Muslims: the Way of Dialogue (2002 Building Bridges; 2008 Lambeth-Jewish Forum)
Organisations and Official Statements The 1990 s • Inter Faith Network (1987) • 3 FF (1997) • Woolf Institute (1998)
Organisations and Official Statements: Relations with Muslims • Building Bridges (2002) • Christian-Muslim Forum (2006) • Prince Alwaleed Centres (6 centres including Edinburgh and Cambridge, 2008)
Responses to Conflict Zionism and the state of Israel • Israeli-Palestinian Conflict • Abrahamic controversies
Responses to Conflict • Rushdie Affair (1988) • ‘Northern Riots’ (2001)
Responses to Conflict • ‘Community Cohesion’ policies (Cantle Report) • Funding (and growth) of interfaith programmes as public policy
Responses to Conflict • Middle East and the Arab awakening • 9/11 and 7/7 • The rise of social media
Responses to Conflict • Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-Christian attitudes; • religious extremism and political radicalisation
Is the Dream of Interfaith Dialogue Dying? • Seeking common ground but not managing difference • Running out of steam • Single interest groups
Seeking ‘Genuine’ Interfaith Encounters • Embracing difference (Sacks) • Responding to austerity and localism
Seeking ‘Genuine’ Interfaith Encounters • Multi-disciplinary • Secular reality • Constructive interfaith tension
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