Theology and the Dialogue of Religions

Informationen zum Autor Michael Barnes holds the Alumni Chair in the Humanities and is a professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton. He is the author of In the Presence of Mystery: An Introduction to the Story of Human Religiousness (XXIII, 1990) and Stages of Thought: the Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science (Oxford, 2000). Klappentext Michael Barnes SJ contributes to the debate about the place of inter-religious relations in the life of the Church. Zusammenfassung Michael Barnes SJ contributes to the debate about the place of inter-religious relations in the life of the Church by developing a 'theology of dialogue'. He offers a critique of much current thinking in this area and proposes instead a theology rooted in the themes of welcome and hospitality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Returning Other: 1. Rethinking theology of religions; 2. Remembering the Covenant; 3. Facing the Other; 4. Learning something of God; Part II. Dialogue and God: 5. Telling the Christian story; 6. Reflecting on 'an other' experience; 7. Forming the school of faith; 8. Contemplating the depths of God; 9. Negotiating the middle.

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• Authors: Michael Barnes, S. J. Michael Barnes, S. J. Michael (University of London) Barnes, S.j. Michael (University of London) Barnes
• Assisted by: Daniel W. Hardy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2002
• EAN: 9780521810777
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81077-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Christian
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity