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This book explores the notion of interreligious friendship. Friendship is one of the outcomes as well as conditions for advancing interfaith relations. However, for friendship to advance, there must be legitimation from within and a theory of how interreligious relations can be justified from the resources of different faith traditions. The present volume explores these very issues, seeking to develop a robust theory of interreligious friendship, from the resources of each of the participating traditions. It also seeks to feature particular individual cases as models and precedents for such relations. In particular, the friendship of Gandhi and Charlie Andrews, his closest personal friend, emerges as the model for the project.
List of contents
Foreword, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Overview: Introducing Interreligious Friendship: Types of Friendship, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Summary of Essays on Interreligious Friendship, Stephen Butler Murray
Introduction: Friendship Across Religions-Project Overview and Synthesis, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 1: Understanding Jewish Friendship, Extending Friendship beyond Judaism, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 2: Very Two as Very One: A Response to Understanding Jewish Friendship, Meir Sendor
Chapter 3: A Christian Perspective on Interreligious Friendship, Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Chapter 4: The Sacramentality of Inter-religious Friendship, Johann M. Vento
Chapter 5: Toward a Muslim Theology of Interreligious Friendship, Timothy J. Gianotti
Chapter 6: "Love Speaking to Love": Friendship Across Religious Traditions, Anantanand Rambachan
Chapter 7: Interreligious Friendship: Insights from the Sikh Tradition, Eleanor Nesbitt
Chapter 8: Sikh Perspective on Friendship: Inside View, Balwant Singh Dhillon
Conclusion: Friendship Across Religions: An Interreligious Manifesto, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
About the author
Edited by Alon Goshen-Gottstein - Contributions by Balwant Singh Dhillon; Timothy Gianotti; Alon Goshen-Gottstein; Maria Reis Habito; Ruben Habito; Ryan McAnnally-Linz; Eleanor Nesbitt; Anantanand Rambachan; Meir Sendor; Johann M. Vento and Miroslav Volf
Summary
This book explores the notion of interreligious friendship as a resource for advancing interfaith relations. Robust theories of interreligious friendship are developed for each of the six participating faith traditions, supported by representative case studies.
