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Learned Ignorance - Intellectual Humility among Jews, Christians and Muslims (Paperback)
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Learned Ignorance - Intellectual Humility among Jews, Christians and Muslims (Paperback)
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Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon.
Until the nineteenth century, most dialogue among believers was
carried on as a debate aimed either to disprove the claims of the
other, or to convert the other to one's own tradition. At the end
of the nineteenth century, Protestant Christian missionaries of
different denominations had created such a cacophony amongst
themselves in the mission fields that they decided that it would be
best if they could begin to overcome their own differences instead
of confusing and even scandalizing the people whom they were trying
to convert. By the middle of the twentieth century, the horrors of
the Holocaust compelled Christians, especially mainline Protestants
and Catholics, to enter into a serious dialogue with Jews, one of
the consequences of which was the removal of claims by Christians
to have replaced Judaism, and revising text books that communicated
that message to Christian believers.
Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many branches of
Christianity, not least the Catholic Church, are engaged in a
world-wide constructive dialogue with Muslims, made all the more
necessary by the terrorist attacks of September 11. In these new
conversations, Muslim religious leaders took an important
initiative when they sent their document, ''A Common Word Between
Us, '' to all Christians in the West. It is an extraordinary
document, for it makes a theological argument (various Christians
in the West, including officials at the Vatican, have claimed that
a ''theological conversation'' with Muslims is not possible) based
on texts drawn from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the
Qur'an, that Jewish, Christian, and Muslim believers share the
God-given obligation to love God and each other in peace and
justice.
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies brought together an
international group of sixteen Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim
scholars to carry on an important theological exploration of the
theme of ''learned ignorance.''
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