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The Abrahamic Religions: the prospects for their inter-relations
Dr Edward Kessler
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Theology & the Search for Common Ground
Jesus the Jew
Geza Vermes E P Sanders
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Theology & the Search for Common Ground
The Muslim Jesus:
David Burrell:
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Theology & the Search for Common Ground
Shared Scripture•Exegetical encounters•Bible Study (inc Scriptural reasoning)
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Theology & the Search for Common Ground
Dialogue TheologiansMartin Buber Wilfred Cantwell Smith(1878-1965) (1916-2000)
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Theology & the Search for Common Ground
Encounters with Islam
•A Common Word
•A Call to Dialogue
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Theology & the Search for Common Ground
Responses to the Shoah •Antisemitism and the adversus iudaeos tradition•Violent scripture
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Organisations and Official Statements
1927
•London Society of Jews and Christians•National Conference of Christians and Jews NCCJ (National Conference for Community and Justice)
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Organisations and Official Statements
1942 – Council of Christians and Jews1947 – International Council of Christians and Jews and the Ten Points of Seelisberg1948 – World Council of Churches•Guidelines on Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies, 1979
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Organisations and Official Statements
1962–5 - Vatican II & Nostra Aetate
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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)
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Organisations and Official Statements
1988 – Anglican Communion•Jews, Christians and Muslims: the Way of Dialogue (2002 Building Bridges; 2008 Lambeth-Jewish Forum)
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Organisations and Official Statements
The 1990s
•Inter Faith Network (1987)
•3FF (1997)
•Woolf Institute (1998)
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Organisations and Official Statements: Relations with Muslims
• Building Bridges (2002)
• Christian-Muslim Forum (2006)
• Prince Alwaleed Centres (6 centres including Edinburgh and Cambridge, 2008)
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Responses to Conflict
Zionism and the state of Israel
•Israeli-Palestinian Conflict•Abrahamic controversies
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Responses to Conflict
• Rushdie Affair (1988)
• ‘Northern Riots’ (2001)
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Responses to Conflict
•‘Community Cohesion’ policies (Cantle Report)
•Funding (and growth) of interfaith programmes as public policy
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Responses to Conflict
• Middle East and the Arab awakening• 9/11 and 7/7• The rise of social media
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Responses to Conflict
• Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-Christian attitudes;
• religious extremism and political radicalisation
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Is the Dream of Interfaith Dialogue Dying?
• Seeking common ground but not managing difference
• Running out of steam
• Single interest groups
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Seeking ‘Genuine’ Interfaith Encounters
• Embracing difference (Sacks)
• Responding to austerity and localism
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Seeking ‘Genuine’ Interfaith Encounters
• Multi-disciplinary• Secular reality• Constructive interfaith tension