Trialogue : Jews, Christians, and Muslims in dialogue
Leonard J. Swidler (Author), Khalid Duran, Reuven Firestone
Three professors, beginning with Firestone and Judaism, present their faith traditions and the challenges as well as possibilities for genuine trialogue. Each offers invaluable insights into the ways they share Hebraic roots and Abrahamic traditions and how their beliefs and practices have evolved through the centuries up to and including the present. Throughout the text, readers are encouraged to pause for reflection and/or discussion of the key points presented by the authors. This is a fascinating, enlightening, and highly recommended introduction to these three great faith traditions and how they evolved and are practiced today. (Back cover)
Print Book, English, 2007
Twenty-Third Publications, New London, CT, 2007
224 pages ; 23 cm
9781585955879, 1585955876
219640117
Introduction: The cosmic dance of dialogue
pt. 1. The importance of dialogue / Leonard Swidler. What is dialogue?
The dialogue decalogue
Seven stages of deep-dialogue/critical-thinking
Trialogue
pt. 2. Preparing for dialogue: Judaism / Reuven Firestone. The way that new religions emerge
What Christians and Muslims need to know
Jews and modernity
What Jews need to know about Judaism in dialogue
Jewish "red buttons"
pt. 3. Preparing for dialogue: Christianity / Leonard Swidler. What Jews and Muslims need to know
Connections or corrosives?
Modernity: bond or barrier?
pt. 4. Preparing for dialogue: Islam / Khalid Duran. What is interreligious dialogue and what for?
Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue today
Tackling roadblocks to dialogue
Defining ourselves favorably and others unfavorably
Attitude of the churches toward Muslims
Understanding al-Qurʼan
A variety of positions
Appendix 1. Populations of religions of the world (mid-1997)
Appendix 2. Vatican Council II: Declaration on the relation of the church to non-Christian religions
Appendix 3. World Council of Churches: Striving together in dialogue (a Muslim-Christian call to reflection and action)
Appendix 4. Dialogue and jihad: jihad as dialogue
Appendix 5. Shariʼa and Muslims in Europe
Appendix 6. Muslim-Christian Seminar declaration: Valetta, Malta 1991