Title Learned ignorance : intellectual humility among Jews, Christians, and Muslims / edited by James L. Heft, Reuven Firestone, and Omid Safi

Published New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 344 pages) Contents Part I. Learned Ignorance and Interreligious Dialogue : -- 1. Some requisites for interfaith dialogue / David B. Burrell -- 2. Learned ignorance and faithful interpretation of the Qur'an in Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) / Pim Valkenberg -- 3. "Seeing the sounds" : intellectual humility and the process of dialogue / Michael A. Signer -- 4. Finding common ground : "Mutual knowing," moderation, and the fostering of religious pluralism / Asma Afsaruddin -- Part II. Must Particularity be Exclusive? : -- 5. Humble infallibility / James L. Heft -- 6. Chosenness and the exclusivity of truth / Reuven Firestone -- 7. The belief in the incarnation of God : source of religious humility or cause of theological pride? / Oliver-Thomas Venard -- 8. Supernatural Israel : obstacles to theological humility in Jewish traditions / Shira L. Lander -- 9. Walking on divine edge : reading notions of arrogance and humility in the Qur'an / Afra Jalabi -- Part III. Violence, Apologies, and Conflict : -- 10. After Augustine :humility and the search for God in historical memory / Elizabeth Groppe -- 11. Apology, regret, and intellectual humility : an interreligious consideration / Michael B. McGarry -- 12. Islamic theological perspectives on intellectual humility and the conditioning of interfaith dialogue / Mustaf Abu Sway -- Part IV. Religious Pluralism : -- 13. A meditation on intellectual humility, or on a fusion of epistemic ignorance and covenantal certainty / Stanislaw Krajewski -- 14. Saving "Dominus Iesus" / Daniel Madigan -- 15. Between tradition and reform : between premodern Sufism and the Iranian reform movement / Omid Safi -- Epilogue : The purpose of interreligious dialogue / James L. Heft, Reuven Firestone, and Omid Safi Summary 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.'' Notes Proceedings of a conference held in June 2007 at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Catholic Church -- Relations -- Congresses Catholic Church Abrahamic religions -- Congresses Religions -- Relations -- Congresses BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies. RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. Abrahamic religions Interfaith relations Religions Genre/Form Electronic books proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Heft, James. Firestone, Reuven, 1952- Safi, Omid, 1970- LC no. 2010030256 ISBN 9780199773060 0199773068 1283427141 9781283427142 0190258284 9780190258283 9786613427144 6613427144

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