Interreligious dialogue includes listening to secular voices
In this article I present several reasons why interreligious dialogue should include secular thinkers concerned with religion. Pope Benedict XVI appears to agree. In 2004, he engaged in a public dialogue with Habermas, in 2007 he quoted Adorno and Habermas in his encyclical "Spes salvi", a...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Toronto journal of theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 363-368 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CH Christianity and Society KCB Papacy KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | In this article I present several reasons why interreligious dialogue should include secular thinkers concerned with religion. Pope Benedict XVI appears to agree. In 2004, he engaged in a public dialogue with Habermas, in 2007 he quoted Adorno and Habermas in his encyclical "Spes salvi", and in 2008 he fostered dialogue with secular thinkers by founding the Courtyard of the Gentiles in Rome, a reference to a courtyard in the Jerusalem Temple open to non-Jewish visitors. |
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| ISSN: | 0826-9831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Toronto journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/tjt.4156 |