A Christian View of Islam Essays on Dialogue

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Part 1 INTERREUGIOUS DIALOGUE Encountering the "Other" 1. Interfaith Dialogue A Catholic Christian Perspective 9 Seeing the "Other" with the Eyes of the "Other" 9 Religious Ideals and the Human Condition 11 2. Creating a Culture of Dialogue Toward a Pedagogy of Religious Encounter 16 What Is Dialogue? 16 Sharing Life 18 Dialogue versus Proclamation, or Dialogue with Proclamation? 20 A Culture of Dialogue 21 Patiently Creating a Culture of Dialogue on the Basis of Trust 23 My Pilgrimage in Dialogue 24 The Pedagogy of Religious Encounter: Two Stories 25 Mutual Enrichment 26 3. A Variety of Approaches to Interfaith Dialogue 29 Examples and Approaches to Interfaith Dialogue 29 Observations on Interfaith Dialogue 33 4. Muslim Approaches to Dialogue A Christian Appraisal Theological Issues Ethical Issues Part II CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM DIALOGUE Comparative Perspectives 5. Social and Religious Factors Affecting Muslim-Christian Relations 53 Religious and Confessional Identification 53 Majority-Minority Relations 55 Christians and the Muslim State 57 The Ummah and the Church: Communitarian Life 60 Human Factors: The Burden of History 63 6. Toward a Dialogue of Liberation with Muslims 69 Setting the Practical Goals of Dialogue 69 Liberative Elements in Christianity and Islam 71 Justice, Equality, and Personal Responsibility in the Qur`an 73 7. Hagar Biblical and Islamic Perspectives 82 Abraham as a Bond of Unity 82 Hagar in the Bible and in Islamic Sources 83 The Textual Question of the Biblical Accounts 84 Hagar Meets "the God Who Sees" in the Desert 85 Hagar in the Islamic Traditions 86 Significance of Hagar as "Mother in Faith" 87 8. Christian and Muslim Fundamentalism 90 Christian Fundamentalism 90 Muslim Fundamentalism 98 Bases for Dialogue 107 9. The Ethics of Pardon and Peace A Dialogue of Ideas between the Thought of Pope John Paul II and the Risale-i Nur John Paul II: Peace Rests on Two Pillars: Justice and Forgiveness 109 Social Ethics in the Risale-i Nur 110 Inner Peace 112 Peace and Forgiveness 115 A Convergence of Ideas 117 Part III A CHRISTIAN VIEW OF ISLAM 10. Jesuit Writings on Islam in the Seventeenth Century 123 Neglected Polemical Works 123 Earlier Works by Jesuits on Islam 125 The Manuductio of Gonzales 127 The Breve Trattato of Emmanuele Sanz 134 Le Moderne Prosperita of Nicolo Pallavicino, 1688 137 The Religio Christiana of Michel Nau 141 11. Islam and Terrorism Are We Missing the Real Story;1 149 Linking Islam with Terrorism 149 Celebrating the Birthday of Muhammad 150 Problems in Muslim Societies 151 Islamic Values 152 Has God Desired Enmity between Christians and Muslims? 153 Muslim-Christian Cooperation "For the Benefit of All" 154 12. Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Servants of God Islamic Nonviolence as an Instrument of Social Change 156 Early Years and Training 156 The Khilafat Movement (1919-1924) 157 The Servants of God 159 Nonviolence as an Islamic Principle 161 "Something Larger Than Oneself" 162 A Pathan Nationalist in Pakistan 163 The Significance of Abdul Ghaffar 164 13. Christian Reflections on a Qur`anic Approach to Ecology 167 Purpose of Creation and Human Responsibility 168 Nature as Our Teacher 171 14. The Idea of Holiness in Islam 174 A Qur`an-Centered Spirituality 174 The Path to Holiness in the Pillars of Islam 176 Islamic Spirituality as Imitation of Muhammad 184 The Sufi Path to Holiness 187 Christian Reflections 189 15. Islamic Ethical Vision The Foundations of the Islamic Ethical Vision The Classical Formulation of Moral Norms The Development of Islamic Jurisprudence 195 Ethical Ideals in Early Islam 196 Rationalist Ethics and Muslim Theology 197 Later Developments 199