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Author:   Vebjørn Horsfjord
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   57
Weight:   0.433kg
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9789004355200

ISBN 10:   9004355200
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   16 November 2017
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: It Takes Two to Dialogue  1.1 Letters and Conference Statements  1.2 Jordanian Roots  1.3 The Common Word Process and Academia  1.4 Goal: To Understand What These Men are Doing 2 We Muslims and You Christians: A Common Word between us and You  2.1 A Complex Text: Structure and Main Argument  2.2 Textual Forerunners  2.3 A Common Word: A Second Open Letter  2.4 Using Sacred Texts  2.5 Publication, Promotion and Related Dialogue Initiatives  2.6 Muslims and Christians: Construction of Group Identities  2.7 What Does acw Do?  2.8 Conclusion: It Takes Two to Dialogue 3 The First Christian Responses  3.1 Response from David Ford  3.2 Senior Church Leaders Respond  3.3 An Alternative Reading: Michael Nazir-Ali  3.4 Conclusion 4 Roman Catholic Responses  4.1 Catholic-Muslim Dialogue since the Second Vatican Council  4.2 First Official Catholic Responses to acw 74  4.3 Five Substantial Commentaries from Four Scholars  4.4 Catholic-Muslim Dialogue in the Wake of acw 83  4.5 Conclusion 5 The Yale Response: Loving God and Neighbor Together  5.1 An Advertisement in the New York Times  5.2 Interacting with acw: Arguments, Speech Acts, Construals  5.3 Bodily Gestures, but Little Flesh  5.4 Conclusion 6 World Evangelical Alliance: We Too Want to Live in Love, Peace, Freedom and Justice  6.1 The Text and Its Main Arguments  6.2 What wwll Does  6.3 Different Difference  6.4 Interpreting Evangelicals: Beyond Polite Dialogue?  6.5 Conclusion 7 World Council of Churches: Learning to Explore Love Together  7.1 Four Decades of Christian-Muslim Dialogue  7.2 Learning to Explore Love Together: A Resource Document  7.3 Conclusion 8 Rowan Williams: A Common Word for the Common Good  8.1 Background and Context  8.2 The Text and Its Main Arguments  8.3 What the Text Does  8.4 Managing Differences Discursively  8.5 Conclusion 9 Orthodox Church Leaders: Responses from Five Contexts  9.1 Response from Archbishop Mor Eustathius Matta Roham, Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch  9.2 Response from Catholicos Aram i, Armenian Orthodox Church  9.3 Response from the See of Etchmiadzin (The Armenian Orthodox Church)  9.4 Response from Patriarch Alexy ii of Moscow and all Russia  9.5 Response from Archbishop Chrisostomos ii of Cyprus 10 We Muslims and Christians Together: Statements from Dialogue Conferences  10.1 Declaration from the Yale University Conference, July 2008  10.2 Communique from the Cambridge Conference, October 2008  10.3 Declaration from the Catholic–Muslim Forum, November 2008  10.4 Statement from the Geneva Consultation, November 2010  10.5 Conclusion: acw as Proposition and Invitation 11 Lessons  11.1 Making Sense of a Common Word  11.2 Cross-cutting Topics  11.3 Religion and the Religious  11.4 The Myth of Interreligious Dialogue  11.5 A Hermeneutics of Good Will  11.6 Managing Difference – In-groups and Out-groups Bibliography Index

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Vebjørn L. Horsfjord, Ph.D. (2015), University of Oslo, is senior lecturer in interreligious studies at the Faculty of Theology of that university. He has published on interreligious relations and human rights, and has long experience from facilitating international interreligious dialogue.

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