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Welcoming the Interfaith Future

Religious Pluralism in a Global Age

by Frederick Quinn (Author)
©2012 Monographs XII, 190 Pages

Summary

Members of many religions live alongside one another in sprawling urban centers and isolated rural communities, and conflict and misunderstanding among religions are widespread. From a Christian and Anglican perspective, this book searchingly examines the nature of such encounters and explores the meaning of religious dialogue and terms like conversion, syncretism, salvation, and pluralism. Tightly focused historical chapters discuss expanding twentieth- and twenty-first-century Catholic and Protestant views about other religions and conclude with a fresh interpretation of the formative Asian contribution to contemporary interfaith encounters. Three established, successful examples of on-the-ground religious interaction are also presented, including the work of Muslim leader Eboo Patel in Chicago, Episcopal Bishop William E. Swing in San Francisco, and Anglican Bishop Tim Stevens in Leicester. Ultimately, interfaith religious dialogue benefits from the prayerful use of visual symbols in addition to written commentaries. Several important, innovative Anglican figures are considered, including Kenneth Cragg, Alan Race, David F. Ford, Keith Ward, Desmond Tutu, Ian S. Markham, and Rowan Williams. The Anglican document «Generous Love» (1998) is presented as a wider, inclusive discussion of possibilities for interfaith dialogue. The author concludes by reflecting on the importance of the old hymn, «There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy» in the evolution of his own views and as a foundational statement welcoming the interfaith future. This book is a solid, lively, and lucid introduction of a volatile issue rippling its way through the contemporary Anglican Communion.

Details

Pages
XII, 190
Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9781453908815
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433119408
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0881-5
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (August)
Keywords
Religious Pluralism Contemporary Interfaith Encounters Catholic and Protestant Views about other Religions Religious Dialogue
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2012. XII, 190 pp.

Biographical notes

Frederick Quinn (Author)

Frederick Quinn is an Episcopal priest, retired American diplomat, and author of fourteen books and over a hundred articles on religion, law, and history. He has spent over a decade in assignments in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean; holds three advanced degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles; and has taught courses in «Political Islam» and «Global Islam» at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Dr. Quinn has also served many parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Anglican congregations in Prague and Warsaw, and is presently a chaplain at Washington National Cathedral. His previous books include African Saints, Martyrs and Holy People, a Black Catholic Congress Book of the Month; The Sum of All Heresies: The Image of Islam in Western Thought; To Be a Pilgrim: The Anglican Ethos in History; and Building the «Goodly Fellowship of Faith»: A History of the Episcopal Church in Utah, 1867–1996.

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