Building a Better Bridge: Muslims, Christians, and the Common Good

Building a Better Bridge is a record of the fourth "Building Bridges" seminar held in Sarajevo in 2005 as part of an annual symposium on Muslim-Christian relations cosponsored by Georgetown University and the Archbishop of Canterbury. This volume presents the texts of the public lectures w...

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Другие авторы: Ipgrave, Michael (Спонсор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Washington, DC Georgetown University Press 2008
В:Год: 2008
Обзоры:Building a Better Bridge: Muslims, Christians and the Common Good (2009) (Gorder, A. Christian Van)
Другие ключевые слова:B Christianity and other religions ; Islam ; Congresses
B Ислам (мотив) Congresses Relations Christianity
B Christianity and other religions Congresses Ислам (мотив)
B Islam ; Relations ; Christianity ; Congresses
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Итог:Building a Better Bridge is a record of the fourth "Building Bridges" seminar held in Sarajevo in 2005 as part of an annual symposium on Muslim-Christian relations cosponsored by Georgetown University and the Archbishop of Canterbury. This volume presents the texts of the public lectures with regional presentations on issues of citizenship, religious believing and belonging, and the relationship between government and religion—both from the immediate situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and from three contexts further afield: Britain, Malaysia, and West Africa. Both Christian and Muslim scholars propose key questions to be faced in addressing the issue of the common good. How do we approach the civic sphere as believers in particular faiths and as citizens of mixed societies? What makes us who we are, and how do our religious and secular allegiances relate to one another? How do we accommodate our commitment to religious values with acknowledgment of human disagreement, and how can this be expressed in models of governance and justice? How are we, mandated by scriptures to be caretakers, to respond to the current ecological and economic disorder of our world? Michael Ipgrave and his contributors do not claim to provide definitive answers to these questions, but rather they further a necessary dialogue and show that, while Christian and Islamic understandings of God may differ sharply and perhaps irreducibly, the acknowledgment of one another as people of faith is the surest ground on which to build trust, friendship, and cooperation.
Примечание:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
ISBN:1589017315
Доступ:Open Access