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Title Christian lives given to the study of Islam / edited by Christian W. Troll, S.J., and C.T.R. Hewer
Published New York [N.Y.] : Fordham University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 303 pages)
Contents -- The Tents of Kedar -- Following a Path of Dialogue -- God-Consciousness -- Called from My Mother's Womb -- A Life Between Church and Islam: Seeking True Discernment -- A Philosophical-Theologian's Journey -- A Pilgrimage Amongst the Treasures of Islamic Traditions -- Seeking a Theological Encounter -- Engaging in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Personal Journey -- All Over the World, the Spirit Is Moving -- Synchronized Spiritualities -- On Beiner a Servant of Reconciliation -- A Man of Dialogue -- A Boy from God's Country -- Teaching the Religion of Others -- An Engagement with Islam -- Liminality: Living on Borders -- Growing in Love and Truth with Muslims -- An Interfaith Experience of Dialogue as Love in Action, Silence, and Harmony -- Spiritual Paths as Ways of Dialogue -- A Dominican Friar in a Land of Immigration and in a Land of Islam -- How Did You End Up in Islamic Studies? -- A Call to Muslim-Christian Dialogue -- Grace Builds on Nature -- A Lenten Journey -- Journeying toward God -- "From the brook by the path": Formation and Transformation in Meeting Muslims -- Intelligence, Humility and Confidence: An Agenda for Christian Engagement with Islam -- So What Have We Learned?
Summary This text captures the autobiographical reflections of 28 Christian men and women who, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, committed their lives to the study of Islam and to practical Christian-Muslim relations in new and irenic ways
Subject Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
Islam -- Study and teaching.
Middle East specialists -- Biography
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islam -- Study and teaching
Middle East specialists
Islamwissenschaftler
Islamwissenschaft
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Troll, Christian W., 1937-
Hewer, C. T. R., 1952-
ISBN 9780823243235
0823243230
0823243192
9780823243198
9780823246403
082324640X