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"As we grow in understanding of one another, we see that we share an esteem for ethical values, discernable to human reason, which are revered by all peoples of goodwill. The world begs for a common witness to these values. I therefore invite all religious people to view dialogue not only as a means of enhancing mutual understanding, but also as a way of serving society at large." Pope Benedict XVI
Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue Profile of the Council as well as documents from the Council Documents on Interreligious Dialogue Vatican documents as well as some pertinent articles, and references to other articles and books, which will be useful to readers interested in interreligious dialogue in the context of Jesuit ministries Pastoral Attention to Traditional Religions 1993 letter of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue to the Presidents of Episcopal Conferences in Asia, the Americas and Oceania Letter to Presidents of Bishops' Conferences on the Spirituality of Dialogue Francis Cardinal Arinze, 1999 The Catholic Church and Interreligious Dialogue Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, President of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue from 2002 to 2006 What the Catholic Church Has Learnt from Interreligious Dialogue By Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, M.Afr., March 16, 2006 The Promise of Interreligious Dialogue for a World in Conflict By Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, M.Afr., March 16, 2006 Interfaith Dialogue: The teaching of the Catholic Church Compiled by Alfred Agius for the Committee for Other Faiths of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales Catholics and Interreligious Relations By Dr. John Borelli, special assistant to the president of Georgetown University for Interreligious Initiatives and recently named national coordinator for mission and interreligious dialogue for the U.S. Jesuit Conference The Confluence of Religions Article by Teilhard de Chardin in Theology Today, 1970 Christ Among the Religions Cardinal Avery Dulles, American Magazine, 2002 Dialogue with Religions of Asia: Challenges from Without (Part I) Edmund Chia, FSC (Malaysia) Dialogue with Religions of Asia: Challenges from Within (Part II) Edmund Chia, FSC (Malaysia) Jesuit Interreligious Dialogue and Relations Documentation, reports, and interconnections on interreligious dialogue in the ministries connected with the Jesuits of the United States Creating a Culture of Dialogue: Methodology of Interreligious Dialogue By Thomas Michel, S.J. Creating a Culture of Dialogue: Methodology of Interreligious Dialogue By Thomas Michel, S.J. Towards a Pedagogy of Religious Encounter By Thomas Michel, S.J. Ten Steps to Peace By Thomas Michel, S.J. God’s People Amidst All of God’s People: Ecumenism and the Challenge of Religious and Cultural Plurality By Thomas Michel, S.J. Religious Plurality and the Christological Debate Jacques Dupuis, SJ Jacques Dupuis' Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism Article by Gerard Hall sm in Theology@McAuley, 2002 The Sermon on the Mount of Intrareligious Dialogue By Raimon Panikkar Some Observations on Interreligious Dialogue By Raimon Panikkar Is Christianity the Only Path to God? A paper by Robert Louis Wilken on what St. Augustine said. Scroll down to find the article International Association for Religious Freedom The International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) is the oldest international interfaith organization (founded in 1900) with many member groups in 25 countries. The IARF welcomes into membership anyone commited to the fundamental right of religious freedom and to openness, understanding, compassion, and solidarity among persons of different religious traditions Institute for Interreligious, Intercultural Dialogue At Temple University. Promotes dialogue among individuals and groups of different religions and cultures, focusing especially on scholars, professionals, and institutional & business leaders Religions Working Together for a Better World Links to multifaith, interfaith, and other religious sites World Scripture: An Anthology of Sacred Texts This collection contains over 4000 scriptural passages from 268 sacred texts and 55 oral traditions, and is organized in terms of 164 different themes World Scripture and Education for Peace Paper delivered by Andrew Wilson, Ph.D., at a conference sponsored by the New Ecumenical Research Association in France, May 1992 Religion in a new key: Global perspectives and encounters challenging the study of religions 1996 article by Ursula King in the South African journal "Religion & Theology." Developing Dialogue Msgr. Michael Fitzgerald, MAfr The Role of Dialogue in Mission Msgr. Michael Fitzgerald, MAfr The Contribution of Interfaith Dialogue Towards a Culture of Peace A paper by Jørgen S. Nielsen Discovering the Face of Jesus in Asia Today From the Office of Human Development of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences, 1999. Many sections of this document deal with dialogue Interreligious Dialogue in Pursuit of Fullness of Life in Asia Workshop Report of the FABC Seventh Plenary Assembly in January 2000 in Samphran, Thailand Interreligious Dialogue as Integral to the Jesuit Mission A Woodstock Report Interreligious Dialogue Since Vatican II The Monastic Contemplative Dimension Article by Wayne Teasdale in Spirituality Today, 1991 Ecumenism, Archetypes, and Symbols Article by Antonio Moreno, OP in Spirituality Today, 1989 Theology Today, April 1990 This issue contains three articles: "Naming the Names of God: Muslims, Jews, Christians," by David Burrell; "When the Religions Become Context," by Francis X. Clooney; "Encountering Buddha Theologically," by Paul J. Griffiths A Christian Theology of Other Faiths Article by Diogenes Allen in Theology Today, 1981 Interfaith Encounter Association Dedicated to promoting peace in the Middle East through interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural study. We believe that, rather than being a cause of the problem, religion can and should be a source of the solution for conflicts that exist in the region and beyond The Pilgrimage in the Different Religious Traditions Paper by Swami Amaranandaji, Ramakrishna Vedanda Center, India Is It Possible to Understand Christian Revelation in a Way Which Also Allows for Divine Revelation in Other Religious Traditions? Article by Paul Mulqueen in Theology@McAuley, 2002 Baha'i-Christian Dialogue: Some Key Issues Considered By Francis J. Beckwith At the Heart of Dialogue By Sr. Bruno-Marie Colin, OSB The Depth-Dimension of Religious Dialogue By Swami Abhishiktananda (1910-1973), the Indian name of Dom Henri Le Saux, a Benedictine monk The Interconnection of Study and Dialogue By Fr. Jacques Scheuer Is Poetry the Native Language of Dialogue? By Fr. Bernard-Joseph Samain, OCSO, Abbaye d’Orval in Belgium Journeys in Interreligious Dialogue By Fr. Leo Lefebure, the Matteo Ricci, SJ, Professor of Theology at Georgetown University Nuns and Interreligious Dialogue By Sr. Bruno-Marie Colin, OSB, Abbaye-Paix-Notre-Dame in Liege, Belgium Radical Openness: Toward a Christian Spirituality of Interreligious Dialogue in Depth By Br. Gregory Perron, OSB Reflections on Interreligious Dialogue By Ignatius Hirudayam, SJ, (1910-1995), founder of Aikiya Alayam, an Institute of Dialogue with Cultures and Religions Searching for God in Dialogue By Fr. Ramon Alvarez Velasco, OSB The Roman Catholic Church’s Teaching about Non-Christians in General and Muslims in Particular with Special Reference to the Second Vatican Council Chapter 1 of Modern Western Christian Theological Understandings of Muslims Since The Second Vatican Council by Mahmut Aydin Post Vatican II Developments in the Catholic Church’s Teaching on Non-Christians in General and Muslims in Particular Chapter 2 of Modern Western Christian Theological Understandings of Muslims Since The Second Vatican Council by Mahmut Aydin Christian Theological Rhetoric for a Pluralist Age By Gerard Hall Multi-Faith Dialogue in Conversation with Raimon Panikkar By Gerard Hall, SM Interreligious Perspectives on Incarnation By Dr. Gerard Hall, Head of School of Theology, McAuley Campus, Australian Catholic University. Published in The Australasian Catholic Record, October 1999 What Is the Human Spiritual Impulse? How Is This Reflected in Major World Religions, Both Eastern and Western? By Dr. Gerard Hall, Head of School of Theology, McAuley Campus, Australian Catholic University Intercultural and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Raimon Panikkar By Gerard Hall, Theology@McAuley, 2002 Catholic Church Teaching on Its Relationship to Other Religions Since Vatican II By Dr. Gerard Hall, Head of School of Theology, McAuley Campus, Australian Catholic University The Call to Interfaith Dialogue By Dr. Gerard Hall, Head of School of Theology, McAuley Campus, Australian Catholic University Interreligious Dialogue and Religious Harmony: A Christian Perspective By Gerard Hall A Cusan Approach to Religious Unity Chapter 6 of Ethical Implications of Unity and the Divine in Nicholas of Cusa by David J. De Leonardis Wittgenstein on Religious Points of View: Its Relevance for Interreligious Dialogue By Kim-chinj Vu. Chapter 5 of Dialogue between Christian Philosophy and Chinese Culture: Philosophical Perspectives for the Third Millennium, edited by Paschal Ting, Marian Kao and Bernard Li Dialogue as a Way to Humanity By Jolana Poláková. Chapter 4 of Human Dignity: Values and Justice, edited by Miloslav Bednár The Link Between Interreligious Dialogue and Work for Justice Article by Francis X. Clooney, S.J. in In All Things, November 2000 Language as Expression of Unity and Diversity: From Babel to Pentecost and Beyond By John Kinder, Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Chair of European Languages and Studies at the University of Western Australia Catholic Universities and Interreligious Dialogue By J. Michael Miller A Charism for Dialog: Advice from the Early Jesuit Missionaries in Our World of Religious Pluralism Francis X Clooney, S.J. The Bishop: Servant of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the Hope of the World Rev. Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. The Service of Faith in a Religiously Pluralistic World Rev. Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. Dialogue Today: A Certain Stubbornness James D. Redington, S.J. Ethical Creativity in a Culture of Uneasy Religious Pluralism, Incomplete Democratization and Economic Injustice Martin Prozesky Many True Religions, And Each An Only Way: The Diversity of Religious Ends S. Mark Heim, Andover Newton Theological School Suspending Our Beliefs Mathai Zachariah, former general secretary of the National Council of Churches in India JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE The Theology of the Covenant as Central Issue in the Jewish-Christian Dialogue Cardinal Walter Kasper, 2001 Interreligious Dialogue and Jewish-Christian Relations Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 1998 Covenant Norman Solomon, Oxford, September 2001 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM VATICAN II TO TODAY Course taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University, October 2004 to January 2005 and organized by the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies The Virtues of Dialogue By Thomas Stransky, CSP, and Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum on the Making of Nostra Aetate SIDIC Service International de Documentation Judéo-Chrétienne. Underlying all of SIDIC's work is the call of the Church to understand and esteem the Jewish people as it understands itself, and to deepen Christian faith through the study of the faith of the Jewish people. To realize this call, SIDIC offers a periodical by the same name, published three times a year in English and in French; a multi-lingual library of more than 4000 volumes; a programme of activities (lectures, seminars, Hebrew courses, visits to the old "ghetto", etc.) which take place from October to June; and a documentation service which provides materials regarding the development of the Christian-Jewish dialogue among the various churches and organizations Catholics, Jews, and Vatican II: A New Beginning A 1991 paper by Thomas Beaudoin Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church Commission For Religious Relations With the Jews. These Guidelines appeared in the July 1, 1985 issue of "L'Osservatore Romano Reconciling Gospel and Torah: The Catechism Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger' speech at the international Jewish-Christian Conference in Jerusalem on the view of Jewish-Christian relations offered in the Catechism of the Catholic Church Rejoice in the Lord Victor Donovan C.P. reflects on the Holocaust, Edith Stein, and a lifetime of working to advance Jewish-Catholic Relations Speak the Truth: New Hope for Jewish-Catholic Dialogue Article by Paul Zilonka, C.P. in Compassion. 2000 Current Catholic Liturgical Options Vis-a-Vis Jews and Judaism Paper by J. Frank Henderson in pdf format Talk at the Jewish/Catholic Dialogue Gathering, December 2000 By Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska Repentance, Reconciliation and Jewish-Catholic Relations Talk by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. This talk was delivered to an adult education gathering at Temple Sinai in Denver on the evening of Jan. 22, 2001 Center for Catholic Jewish Studies Sponsored by St. Leo University and the American Jewish Committee Jewish-Christian Relations This site is concerned with issues in the on-going Christian-Jewish dialogue. It is not about conversion or Christian-Jewish messianism. Here you can find: articles, bibliographies and other resources, pages of Christian-Jewish organizations, addresses of and links to institutes and groups involved in the dialogue, statements of churches, joint statements, as well as news, events and reports Probing the Jewish-Christian Reality Article by Paul van Buren The Mystery Of the Jews' Rejection Of Christ Article by A. Roy Eckardt in Theology Today. 1961 Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik on Interreligious Dialogue: Forty Years Later November 2003 conference. Includes introduction, the original essay by Rabbi Soloveitchik, "Confrontation", panel papers and responses, and online continuing conversation Come my Beloved -- From Shoah to Shalom Ingrid H. Shafer, Ph.D. "In this site I hope to accomplish two goals. First I want to collect articles and links that take an honest look at the tragic ways traditional Christian understandings of the origin of Christianity and the appropriate way of practicing Christianity have distorted and poisoned the relationship between Christians and the People Israel who gave their son Yeshua, the one we call Jesus, to the world . Second, I hope to post articles, poetry, and links that provide resources toward a future of shared efforts to follow God's call and serve the cause of love, peace, justice, and freedom." Facing the Future: A Shared Agenda for Christians and Jews Lecture by Rabbi Alexander Schindler, President Emeritus, Union of American Hebrew Congregations Our Journey of Faith Lecture by Dr. James P. Shannon Center for Christian-Jewish Learning The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College is dedicated to the growth of new and mutually enriching relationships between Christians and Jews. Documents, articles, conferences, and lots more Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding Sacred Heart University (CCJU), Fairfield, Connecticut. Documents, articles, conferences, and lots more The Semiotics of Embodiment: Radical Orthodoxy and Jewish-Christian Relations Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania The Significance of the State of Israel for Contemporary Judaism and Jewish-Christian Dialogue Addresses given at the Second Colloquium of Jesuits in Jewish-Christian Dialogue MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE Joint Declaration of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue (Vatican) and the Centre for Inter-religious Dialogue of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation (Tehran, Iran) Rome, 28-30 April 2008 Christians and Muslims: Believers in God faithful to Man A 1997 talk by Francis Cardinal Arinze, President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue Christian-Muslim Relations in the 21st Century Cardinal Francis Arinze Links to Christian-Muslim and Interreligious Dialogue, internationally Courtesy of Oddbjørn Leirvik The Challenges in Catholic–Muslim Dialogue By Fr. Elias Mallon, SA, former director of the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute of Graymoor and New York City "Partners for Peace" Final Statement of Faith Encounters in Social Action (FEISA) III Christian-Muslim Dialogue for Justice and Solidarity Wisma Canossa A Place Apart In the midst of contradictions, challenges, and divisions, Western believers and Muslims meet. Article in Sojourners magazine by Julie Polter Christian-Muslim dialogue raises hope - and suspicion Article in Sojourners magazine by Jim Rice The Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Georgetown University Pluralism in Muslim-Christian Relations John L. Esposito, Georgetown University About Christian Muslim Relations From Centre for Christian-Muslim Relations, Columban Mission Institute, Australian Catholic University Education For Dialogue: A Duty For Christians and Muslims Article by Cardinal Francis Arinze in Pakistan Christian Voice The Foundations of Islamic Religious Experience Article by John Renard, SJ in Spirituality Today, 1982 A Contemporary Response to Islam Article by John Renard, SJ in Spirituality Today, 1982 Articles From the Fellowship of Faith for the Muslims A Christian Scholar’s Dialogue with Muslims By Hans Küng, director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research at the University of Tübingen Articles and Essays On MusliChristian relations Arab Group for Muslim-Christian Dialogue A Middle-Eastern group of Muslim and Christian scholars Islam as Seen from the Christian West Chapter 7 of Religion and Cooperation between Civilizations: Islamic and Christian Cultures in a Global Horizon by George F. McLean Islamic Civilization and the West: Problems of Dialogue By Nur Kirabaev. Chapter 2 of Values in Islamic Culture and the Experience of History, edited by Nur Kirabaev and Yuriy Pochta Hope for Muslim-Christian Relations 2002 Woodstock Report by Professor Yvonne Yasbeck Haddad, Father Thomas Michel, S.J., and Professor Ali A. Mazrui Modern Western Christian Theological Understandings of Muslims Since The Second Vatican Council Book by Mahmut Aydin Islamic and Christian Cultures: Conflict or Dialogue Book edited by Plamen Makariev Christian Faith and Radical Monotheism Papers of the meeting of Jesuits among Muslims that took place at La Baume in Aix-en-Provence, France, on 1-8 April, 2002, which concentrated on the theme of the Trinity in light of the encounters between Christianity and Islam Jesuits Discuss Islam in Istambul In September 1998, 15 young Jesuits in various stages of Islamic studies came together at the Dominican Convent in Istanbul Christian Reflections on a Qur'anic Approach to Ecology Thomas Michel, S.J. The Trinity as Radical Monotheism Thomas Michel, S.J. Islamic Revival and Its Implications for Christian-Muslim Dialogue Thomas Michel, S.J. The Prophets: A Blessing for humankind: Convergence between the Christian Understanding and the Risale-i Nur Thomas Michel, S.J. Muslin-Christian Dialogue and Cooperation in the Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi Thomas Michel, S.J. Christian-Muslim Relations: Are we missing the real story? Thomas Michel, S.J. When Muslims and Christians Marry Rita George Tvrtkovic, America, September 10, 2001 Christian Responses to Muslim Questions Christian W. Troll, S.J. Dialogue on Islamic Faith ain the Jesuit Environment Seid M. Zekavat Dialogues of the Heart Jamal Rahman, Muslim Sufi Minister at Interfaith Community Church and adjunct faculty at Seattle University Religion and Politics: The (Not So) Great Divide Fr Dan Madigan SJ. Muslims and Christians: Where do we Stand? 2003 Jesuit Seminar Series Religious and Human Freedom Prof Abdullah Saeed. Muslims and Christians: Where do we Stand? 2003 Jesuit Seminar Series Encountering the Other Frank Brennan SJ AO. Muslims and Christians: Where do we Stand? 2003 Jesuit Seminar Series Religion: Barrier or Bridge to Building Understanding Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO BUDDHIST-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE Christians and Buddhists: Communities of Forgiveness and Compassion A 1997 talk by Francis Cardinal Arinze, President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue Buddhist-Christian Dialogue Statement by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 1990 Los Angeles Buddhist- Roman Catholic Dialogue began February 16, 1989 and is sponsored by the Buddhist Sangha Council of Southern California and the Catholic Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. It was formed as an official, on-going, core group dialogue. The core group was designed to accommodate approximately eight Buddhist representatives and eight Roman Catholic representatives. Meetings are held every six to eight weeks, rotating between Buddhist and Catholic locations Dialogue and Proclamation With Buddhism Paper by Fr J. López-Gáy, SJ God and Buddhism John B. Cobb, Jr Can Buddhism Save? Finding Resonance in Incommensurability Article by Christopher A. Brown in Cross Currents, 1999 East-West Dialogue: Sunyata and Kenosis, Part 1 Article by James Heisig, SVD in Spirituality Today, 1987 East-West Dialogue: Sunyata and Kenosis, Part 2 Article by James Heisig, SVD in Spirituality Today, 1987 Christian Identity and Buddhist Journey Article by Brian Metcalfe in Compass, 1996 True East Interview with Boston College Associate Theology Professor John Makransky, a lama in the lineage of Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies At Rice University "Fruit Salad Can Be Delicious": The Practice of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue By Paul O. Ingram, Professor of Religion at Pacific Lutheran University and Past President of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Breakthrough In Buddhist–Christian Monastic Dialogue By Fr. James Conner, OCSO. This article is a summary of a conference on Christian and Buddhist meditation that was held at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, August 7–11, 1981 Buddhist-Christian Colloquium on "Word and Silence in Buddhist and Christian Traditions" The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue organized its second international colloquium at the Asirvanum Benedictine Monastery in Bangalore, India from July 9 to 13, 1998 Buddhist–Catholic Dialogue: An Early Journey Los Angeles Interreligious Group Christian-Buddhist Dialogue as Spiritual Experience By Fr. Pierre-François de Béthune, OSB A Shift in Buddhist–Christian Dialogue By Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB, 1987 The Kalachakra Initiation By Sr. Mary Margaret Funk, OSB, former prioress at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana. This is Sr. Mary Margaret’s account of the Kalachakra Initiation at which His Holiness the Dalai Lama presided in late August, 1999 Listening to the Lion’s Roar: Notes on an Intrareligious Dialogue Br. Gregory Perron, OSB, St. Procopius Abbey in Lisle, Illinois The Gifts of Zen Buddhism An Interview with Robert E. Kennedy, SJ HINDU-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE Society for Hindu-Christian Studies This page is designed to provide easy access to information about the Society, the Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin, and other material related to Hindu-Christian studies Towards One World Family Anantanand Rambachan. Keynote address from the Hindu-Christian consultation held in Varanasi, India, 23-27 October 1997 Statement from the Hindu-Christian Consultation Held in Varanasi, India, 23-26 October 1997 Witness to Hindu Neighbors Article by S. Wesley Ariarjah in Theology Today, 1983 A Conversation with Jim Redington, S.J. Author of the book The Grace of Lord Krishna: The Sixteen Verse-Treatises of Vallabhacharya. Vallabhacharya is a sixteenth century Hindu theologian-saint who founded a Hindu system numbering about five million people today Abhishiktananda and the Challenge of Hindu-Christian Experience By Dr. Bettina Baeumer Towards Deepening Hindu-Christian Maitri: The Meaning of Interreligious Dialogue By Mgr. Felix Machado, under-secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue I Am Evangelising Christians An Interview with Prof. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Divinity School, Harvard University |
