Learned ignorance: intellectual humility among jews, christians and muslims

Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many branches ofChristianity, not least the Catholic Church, are engaged in a world-wide constructive dialogue with Jews and also with Muslims, made all the more necessaryby the terrorist attacks of September 11. The Institute for Advanced CatholicStudies brought together an international group of sixteen Jewish, Catholic and Muslim scholars tocarry on an important theological exploration of the theme of ''learned ignorance.'' Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. Until the nineteenth century, most dialogue among believers was carried on as a debate aimed either to disprove the claims of the other, or to convert the otherto one's own tradition. At the end of the nineteenth century, Protestant Christian missionaries of different denominations had created such a cacophony amongst themselves in the mission fields that they decided that it would be best if they could begin toovercome their own differences instead of confusing and even scandalizing thepeople whom they were trying to convert. By the middle of the twentieth century, the horrors of the Holocaust compelled Christians, especially mainline Protestants and Catholics, to enter into a serious dialogue with Jews, oneof the consequences of which was the removal of claims by Christians to have replaced Judaism, and revising text books that communicated that message to Christian believers.Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many branches of Christianity, not least the Catholic Church, are engaged in a world-wide constructive dialogue with Muslims, made all the more necessary by the terrorist attacks of September 11. In these new conversations, Muslim religious leaders took an important initiative when they sent their document,''A Common Word Between Us,'' to all Christians in the West. It is an extraordinary document, for it makes atheological argument (variousChristians in the West, including officials at the Vatican, have claimed thata ''theological conversation'' with Muslims is not possible) based on texts drawn from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Qur'an, that Jewish, Christian, and Muslim believers share the God-given obligation to loveGod and each other in peace and justice.The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies brought together an internationalgroup of sixteen Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim scholars to carry on an important theological exploration of the theme of ''learned ignorance.'' 1. Preface James L. Heft2. Introduction James L. HeftPart I: Learned Ignorance and Interreligious Dialogue3. Some Requisites for Interfaith Dialogue David B. Burrell4. Learned Ignorance and Faithful Interpretation of the Qur'an in Nicholas ofCusa Pim Valkenberg5. ''Seeing the Sounds'': Intellectual Humility and the Process of Dialogue Michael Signer6. Finding Common Ground: ''Mutual Knowing,'' Moderation, and the Fostering of Religious Pluralism Asma AfsaruddinPart II: Must Particularity Be Exclusive?7. Humble Infallibility James L. Heft8. Chosenness and the Exclusivity of Truth: What does it Mean to be ''Chosen''? Reuven Firestone9. The Belief in the Incarnation of God: Source or Religious Humility or Cause of Theological Pride? Oliver-Thomas Venard10. Supernatural Israel: Obstacles to Theological Humility in Jewish Tradition Shira L. Lander11. Arrogance and Humility: a Quranic Perspective Afra JalabiPart III: Violence, Apologies and Conflict12. After Augustine: Humility and the Search for God in Historical Memory Elizabeth Groppe13. Apology, Regret and Intellectual Humility: An Interreligious Consideration Michael B. McGarry14. Islamic Theological Perspectives on Intellectual Humility and the Conditioning of Interfaith Dialogue Mustafa Abu-swayPart IV: Religious Pluralism15. A Meditation on Intellectual Humility: A Fusion of Epistemic Ignorance and Covenantal Certainty Stanislaw Krajewski16. Saving Dominus Jesus Daniel Madigan17. Between Tradition and Reform: The Pre-modern Sufism and the Iranian Reform Movement Omid Safi18. Epilogue: The Purpose of Interreligious Dialogue James L. Heft,Reuven Firestone, and Omid SafiIndex

• ISBN: 978-0-19-976931-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 04/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés