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1 online resource (361 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Contributors; Learned Ignorance; PART I: Learned Ignorance and Interreligious Dialogue; 1. Some Requisites for Interfaith Dialogue; 2. Learned Ignorance and Faithful Interpretation of the Qur'an in Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464); 3. "Seeing the Sounds": Intellectual Humility and the Process of Dialogue; 4. Finding Common Ground: "Mutual Knowing," Moderation, and the Fostering of Religious Pluralism; PART II: Must Particularity Be Exclusive?; 5. Humble Infallibility; 6. Chosenness and the Exclusivity of Truth |
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7. The Belief in the Incarnation of God: Source of Religious Humility or Cause of Theological Pride?8. Supernatural Israel: Obstacles to Theological Humility in Jewish Tradition; 9. Walking on Divine Edge: Reading Notions of Arrogance and Humility in the Qur'an; PART III: Violence, Apologies, and Conflict; 10. After Augustine: Humility and the Search for God in Historical Memory; 11. Apology, Regret, and Intellectual Humility: An Interreligious Consideration; 12. Islamic Theological Perspectives on Intellectual Humility and the Conditioning of Interfaith Dialogue; PART IV: Religious Pluralism |
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13. A Meditation on Intellectual Humility, or on a Fusion of Epistemic Ignorance and Covenantal Certainty14. Saving Dominus Iesus; 15. Between Tradition and Reform: Between Premodern Sufism and the Iranian Reform Movement; Epilogue: The Purpose of Interreligious Dialogue; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
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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 |
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Print version record |
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Catholic Church -- Relations -- Congresses
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Catholic Church |
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Abrahamic religions -- Congresses
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Religions -- Relations -- Congresses
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Abrahamic religions
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Interfaith relations
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Religions
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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Firestone, Reuven
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Safi, Omid
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| ISBN |
9780199773060 |
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0199773068 |
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