Contents divided into three sections: An Anglican Basis for Inter-Faith Encounters -- Guidelines for Interfaith Dialogue -- Selected Bibliography.
"The Lambeth Conference of 1978 requested all members of the Anglican Communion to consider their position on the Christian relationship with people of other faiths. .... In 1983 the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada requested its Inter-Church and Inter-Faith Relations Committee `to present to the 1986 General Synod a paper on a Christian theological basis for an Anglican response to other faiths'. The following statement and guidelines have been drafted to serve as a common basis for our thinking on this topic". -- p. 1.
"These guidelines are offered to Canadian Anglicans as they seek to reach out to their neighbours of other faiths. Our approach has two separate, but inter-related, aspects: dialogue, which includes growing in our knowledge of each other and a mutual sharing of spiritual insights; and common action which would involve joint efforts to deal with issues related to life together in society, but might also include activities of a devotional nature". -- p. 14.
"A Doctor of Ministry Thesis Submitted to the Faculties of the Toronto School of Theology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Ministry Awarded by Wycliffe College".
Includes bibliographical references and bibliography: ll. 225-227.
"The Anglican Parish of St. Theodore of Canterbury is situated in a multicultural neighbourhood in Toronto, where the Christian population is a decided minority. Interfaith experiences have a significant impact on the Christian praxis of parishioners. Yet the subject has not received much attention in the course of the Church's teaching. Out of personal background and as the parish priest, the author undertook to find out what would happen if parishioners' interfaith experiences were discussed intentionally with the benefit of formal theological thinking. The theoretical framework operative in the thesis revolves around the spectrum represented by exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism". -- Abstract, p. vii.
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Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Fending for Themselves -- Is Anyone Out There ? -- Close Encounters of What Kind ? -- We Have Liftoff -- Out of Exclusivity -- This Is the Captain's Log -- Appendix A: The Thesis Proposal -- Appendix B: Characteristics of Focus Group Participants -- Appendix C: Focus Group Questions -- Appendix D: Ranking Interest in Proposed Educational Activities -- Appendix E: Agenda of the Research Group Sessions -- Appendix F: Bible Study Outline of Acts 10 -- Appendix G: Research Group Questionnaire -- Appendix H: A Sample Profile -- Appendix I: A Demonstration of Data Collection and Processing -- Appendix J: Journal Questions -- Appendix K: Movements in the Shared Praxis Approach -- Bibliography.
Author is a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada [and later bishop].
"A Doctor of Ministry Thesis Submitted to the Faculties of the Toronto School of Theology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Ministry Awarded by Wycliffe College".
Includes bibliographical references and bibliography: ll. 225-227.
"The Anglican Parish of St. Theodore of Canterbury is situated in a multicultural neighbourhood in Toronto, where the Christian population is a decided minority. Interfaith experiences have a significant impact on the Christian praxis of parishioners. Yet the subject has not received much attention in the course of the Church's teaching. Out of personal background and as the parish priest, the author undertook to find out what would happen if parishioners' interfaith experiences were discussed intentionally with the benefit of formal theological thinking. The theoretical framework operative in the thesis revolves around the spectrum represented by exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism". -- Abstract, p. vii.
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Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Fending for Themselves -- Is Anyone Out There ? -- Close Encounters of What Kind ? -- We Have Liftoff -- Out of Exclusivity -- This Is the Captain's Log -- Appendix A: The Thesis Proposal -- Appendix B: Characteristics of Focus Group Participants -- Appendix C: Focus Group Questions -- Appendix D: Ranking Interest in Proposed Educational Activities -- Appendix E: Agenda of the Research Group Sessions -- Appendix F: Bible Study Outline of Acts 10 -- Appendix G: Research Group Questionnaire -- Appendix H: A Sample Profile -- Appendix I: A Demonstration of Data Collection and Processing -- Appendix J: Journal Questions -- Appendix K: Movements in the Shared Praxis Approach -- Bibliography.
Author is a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada [and later bishop].
"Despite reluctance and even resistance in some quarters, awareness is growing in the ecumenical movement that Christians, in today's increasingly pluralistic world, must go beyond the study of other religions to meet with adherents of those faiths in an encounter of listening and witnessing to each other." "In a concluding section he reflects on controversial contemporary issues in interfaith relations: scriptures and their authority, the `uniqueness' of Jesus Christ, secularism and religious renewal, the Holy Spirit".
Contents divided into three main sections: Early Years -- Sojourn -- Return.
Contents: Preface -- Remembered Moments -- Teaching and Learning -- Via Geneva -- The Anatomy of a Study Process -- Ajaltoun: A New Beginning -- Moving towards Guidelines -- A Bend in the River -- A Tale of Two Cities (1): Colombo -- A Tale of Two Cities (2): Nairobi -- From "Interim" to Enduring Guidelines -- The Return of the Native -- Uniqueness: A Noun in Search of Adjectives ? -- The Future of Inter-Religious Dialogue -- The Holy Spirit and People of Other Faiths.
"This book has been co-published with WSCF Asia/Pacific Region, Hong Kong". -- verso of t.-p.
"One could easily make a strong case showing that according to the Bible God has nothing to do with people of other faiths. .... The author of this study has rightly rejected such a proof-texting misuse of the Bible. He attempts to listen to the whole biblical message. .... What then can we learn from this exploration on the Bible and people of other faiths ? First of all, many of the critical questions which constantly arise in connection with the dialogue between Christians and people of other faiths are honestly taken up here and discussed in the light of the biblical message. Secondly, the author shows convincingly that among the variety of biblical traditions there is one which not only legitimizes such a dialogue but challenges us to enter into it. Thirdly, here are important biblical insights about the theological presuppositions and the necessary spiritual attitudes for such a dialogue". -- Foreword.
"When the Asia-Pacific Region of the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) asked me to write a book on dialogue, what they were looking for was something that would help an average Christian to relate to people who live by other faith convictions. .... In responding to the WSCF request, therefore, I have chosen to deal with what in some ways is a more difficult subject, namely 'The Bible and People of other Faiths'. This subject should be of interest to a much larger constituency than the WSCF had in mind, and hence this joint WCC-WSCF (Asia-Pacific) publication". -- Intro.
Contents: Foreword / Hans-Ruedi Weber -- Introduction -- No Other God -- Two Encounters -- Jesus the Only Way ? -- A Biblical Basis for Dialogue ? -- Witness and Dialogue -- Witnessing in Dialogue -- Towards a Theology of Dialogue.
Building relationships among different faiths is going to become increasingly important, especially in a multicultural country like Canada, religious leaders say.
"This booklet is published on the authority of the B.C.C. Committee for Relations with People of Other Faiths. It is intended to be primarily a document for study and discussion by British Christians now facing the question 'Can we pray together ?' with people of other faiths. There are many practical suggestions for further action and involvement. Important too are the warnings, based on much experience, about the pitfalls that lie in the way of the unwary and the over enthusiastic". -- Preface.
Contents: Preface dated October 1983 / Philip Morgan -- Can we pray together ?: How does the question arise ? -- "Worship" in the different religions -- Four Principles of Dialogue -- Four Bible Studies -- Inter-faith worship in Britain: a brief history -- Inter-faith Services -- "A Time for Keeping Silent" -- What the Churches say -- Inter-faith Worship in Hospital -- In Marriage opportunities -- School Worship and Assembly -- In situations of Death and Bereavement -- Visiting other Places of Worship -- Resources.
This book "is packed with case studies, examples of best practice, and practical advice based on the author's own unique experience as teacher and minister in the UK and overseas. It covers mission and inter-faith dialogue, theology and life, prayer and worship, health, education and community issues, and pastoral issues such as inter-faith weddings and conversion. It also includes useful lists of organisations and networks, web-site links, books and multi-media resources". -- back cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Preface dated Easter 2005 -- Introduction: Why Should Christians Bother about Other Faiths ? -- Dialogue: Experiences, Reflections and Structures -- Presence and Engagement: Structures for Christian Response -- The Most Frequently Asked Theological Questions -- Interfaith Prayer and Worship ? -- Pastoral Issues -- Community and Social Issues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography and Resources -- Selected Organisations -- Index.
Author is priest of the Church of England, the Bishop of Leicester's Adviser in Inter-Faith Relations, Canon Theologian and Director of the St. Philip's Centre for Theology and Ministry in a Multi-Faith Society.
"The Moorhouse Lectures, Melbourne, 1960". -- t.-p.
"First published 1961. Reprinted 1962". -- verso of t.-p.
"CDB/XP2907".
Includes bibliography (p. 233-236) and index.
"Bishop Neill has wisely refrained from producing 'yet another introduction to the non-Christian religions'. Rather this is 'an attempt to understand them in their contemporary crises, and to make an assessment of them from a Christian standpoint'. The method is that of dialogue, and the aim is not to delineate other faiths from without, but to enter 'into the heart and spirit of another religion', yet without disloyalty to one's own, seeking what is positive in them, and the questions they may rightly ask of Christianity, as well as the pertinent questions about God and man which Christians may put to them. Chapters are devoted, not only to Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, but also to the faith of contemporary primitive peoples, and to two modern Western 'gospels', Marxist Communism and Existentialism". -- front dust jacket blurb.
Contents: Preface dated Geneva, September 1960 / S.N. -- Acknowledgements -- The Problem Set -- Islam in Crisis -- Renascent Hinduism -- The Doctrine of the Lotus -- The Primitive World -- The Gospel of Marx and the Gospel of Christ -- The Existential Pilgrimage -- Christendom -- Bibliography -- Index.
Colophon: Printed in Great Britain at the University Press Aberdeen.