Janet Martin Soskice

Concilium 2003/4 Learning from Other Faiths Janet Martin Soskice

Publisher Marketing: Introduction / Janet Martin Soskice -- I. "Religion" or religious tradition? Religion - a Western invention? / Gwen Griffith-Dickson -- On Dominus Iesus: complementarity can be claimed / Paul J. Griffiths -- Pluralism of convictions, quest for the truth and society: some notes on the declaration Dominus Iesus / Ignace Berten -- II. Experiences and results of inter-religious dialogue: the Abrahamic traditions. In search of a "golden age": Jews, Christians and Muslims in medieval Spain / Stefan Schreiner -- Trinity and Judaism / Peter Ochs -- Islam: Jesus and the world of dialogue / Tarif Khalidi -- Faith and politics in Islam: what paradigm? / Mustafa Abu Sway -- III. Experiences and results of inter-religious dialogue: traditions of Asia. A Hindu response to the Pope's encyclical letter, Fides et ratio / Sivanandam Panneerselvam -- Listening to a Western Buddhism / Paul Van Der Velde -- IV. Some implications. Towards a pedagogy of religious encounter / Thomas Michel, SJ -- The awakening of wizards: carnival in Rio de Janeiro and new age aesthetics / Leila Amaral -- Conclusion: the self-emptying nearness of the liberating God: contours of a Christian theology of other forms of faith / Erik Borgman. Contributor Bio:  Soskice, Janet Martin Janet Martin Soskice is Reader in Modern Theology and Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Jesus College and co-editor of Feminism and Theology (2003). Contributor Bio:  Haring, Hermann Edward Schillebeeckx was an internationally known theologian and one of the leading progressives at the Second Vatican Council. He was the author of many books, including God is New Each Moment, published by Continuum. He died in 2010.