Sharing Lights on the Way to God: Muslim-Christian Dialogue and Theology in the Context of Abrahamic Partnership

TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
1.1 Hospitality: An Underdeveloped Virtue......Page 20
1.2 Friendly Manners — Unfriendly Faith......Page 23
1.3 Receiving the Stranger: A Biblical Perspective......Page 25
1.4 Hospitality: Philosophical Reflections and Political Consequences......Page 30
1.5 Companionship at Table: Hospitality and the Holy......Page 39
2.1 An Unfinished Bridge: From the Study of Dialogue to Participation in Dialogue......Page 48
2.2 Passing over the River: Encounter with the Islam and Dialogue Foundation......Page 53
2.3 Building the Structures of Interreligious Dialogue in Nijmegen......Page 63
2.4 The Situation of Muslims in the Netherlands......Page 65
3.1 The Necessity of a Third Partner in Dialogue......Page 74
3.2 Monotheistic and Abrahamic Religions......Page 76
3.3 Not Abraham but the God of Abraham and Sarah and Hagar......Page 81
3.4 Muslim-Christian Dialogue and the Role of Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael......Page 91
3.5 Awraham and Sarah: a Jewish Interruption......Page 95
CHAPTER 4 Contexts and Meanings of Interreligious Dialogue......Page 100
4.1 The Dual Sources of Contemporary Dialogue......Page 102
4.2 Forms of Dialogue and the History of Apologetics......Page 106
4.3 Inequality in Dialogue: A Contextual Analysis......Page 116
4.4 Levels and Aims of Dialogue: The Approach by the Roman Catholic Church......Page 120
4.5 Dialogue in Practice: The Contribution of the World Council of Churches......Page 127
5.1 Interreligious and Interfaith Dialogue......Page 132
5.2 Theological Universalist Approaches to the Future Of Religion......Page 136
5.3 Phenomenological Approaches to Religion: Multiple Belonging......Page 143
5.4 The 'Inter-' of Interreligious Dialogue: Syncretism or Separation?......Page 153
5.5 Practical Consequences 1: Prayer and Fasting......Page 167
5.6 Practical Consequences 2: Emulating in Good Deeds......Page 169
CHAPTER 6 Three Theologies of Religions and the Role of Comparative Theology......Page 182
6.1 Children of Noah: A Jewish Theology of Religions......Page 183
6.1.1 Classical Sources......Page 184
6.1.2 Three Contemporary Interpretations......Page 188
6.2 Word and Spirit of God: A Christian Theology of Religions......Page 190
6.2.1 Jacques Dupuis......Page 191
6.2.2 Gavin D'Costa......Page 196
6.2.3 S. Mark Heim......Page 199
6.3 People of the Book: A Muslim Theology of Religions......Page 202
6.3.1 Ismail Raji al-Faruqi......Page 204
6.3.2 Farid Esack......Page 207
6.4.1 Christian Theology of Religions: Sources and Models......Page 212
6.4.2 Theologies of Interreligious Dialogue and Religious Pluralism......Page 215
6.4.3 Comparative Theologies......Page 219
7.1 On Sharing Lights......Page 230
7.2 Thomas Aquinas and the Hidden Presence of God......Page 232
7.3 Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazālī (1058-1111)......Page 238
7.3.1 Approaches to his Life and Work......Page 240
7.3.2 Deliverance from Error......Page 246
7.3.3 The Niche of Lights......Page 254
7.3.4 The Beautiful Names of God......Page 258
7.3.5 Faith and Trust in God......Page 262
7.3.6 On Knowing and Loving God......Page 270
7.4 An Interlude on Muhyī al-dīn ibn al-'Arabī (1165-1240)......Page 273
7.5 Maulana Jalāl al-dīn Rūmī (1207-1273)......Page 276
7.5.1 Life and Context of Jalāl al-d&299;n Rūmī......Page 278
7.5.2 Rūmī as the Poet of Love......Page 279
7.5.3 God's Hidden Presence and the Dialectics of Self......Page 281
CHAPTER 8 More Lights on the Way: Spiritual and Theological Masters of the Present......Page 288
8.1.1 Life and Context......Page 290
8.1.2 The Damascus Sermon......Page 293
8.1.3 Signs of Miraculousness......Page 297
8.1.4 The Epistles of Light (Risale-i Nur)......Page 301
8.1.5 The Nurçuluk Movement and Interreligious Dialogue......Page 320
8.2 Interlude: Nada te Turbe (How to Find Your True Home)......Page 323
8.3.1 Gülen's Life and Context......Page 328
8.3.2 Fethullah Gülen on Tolerance and Dialogue......Page 331
8.3.3 Education as Central Concept in the Gülen Movement......Page 338
8.4 Tariq Ramadan and the Future of Islam in the West......Page 340
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