Faith Encounters of the Third Kind: Humility and Hospitality in Interfaith Dialogue

by David J. Brewer, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen (Foreword by)

Overview

Interreligious dialogue that strives for both hospitality and honest discussion of difference! Is it possible to have both? Is it possible for religious traditions to engage one another in a spirit of humility, while also working together toward mutual descriptions of God and the world? This is the goal of this book, to find points at which each of the religious traditions are vulnerable and open enough to listen to each other and to help each other toward a shared description of reality. If you share these concerns--concerns for interfaith dialogue as well as for deeply held notions of conviction and truth--then the invitation is open for mutual constructive engagement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725258488
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	09/21/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

David J. Brewer is President of Hudson Taylor University in Georgia and Professor of Christian Philosophy.
David J. Brewer is President of Hudson Taylor University in Georgia and Professor of Christian Philosophy.


Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and Docent of Ecumenics at University of Helsinki, Finland. A native of Finland, he has taught and lived with his family in Thailand and participates widely in international ecumenical, theological, and interreligious projects. Among about thirty books and monographs authored and edited, his main work is the five-volume A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World.

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“This is what I am reading in this inspiring and exciting work. As Dr. Brewer puts it succinctly in his preface: the main goal is ‘to offer an approach to interreligious dialogue predicated on humility and hospitality that also strives for honest discussion of difference.’ I couldn’t agree more with this noble aim!”

—Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary



“David Brewer has done the fields of philosophy of religion and philosophical theology a great service by highlighting the epistemological role of humility and hospitality in the quest to understand God. What emerges from the discussion is the realization that convictional differences are the necessary conditions for discovery and honest interrogation of claims to truth. Brewer uses the resources of MacIntyre’s conception of tradition-constituted rationality to negotiate the contested terrain of rival religious traditions of enquiry in such a way that what might initially be perceived as an enemy and a threat can now be seen as a friend and fellow traveler on the road to understand what remains the greatest mystery that we humans face: God.”

—Christian Early, Associate Director, Ethical Reasoning in Action, James Madison University

Editorial Reviews

This is what I am reading in this inspiring and exciting work. As Dr. Brewer puts it succinctly in his preface: the main goal is ‘to offer an approach to interreligious dialogue predicated on humility and hospitality that also strives for honest discussion of difference.’ I couldn’t agree more with this noble aim!”

—Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary



“David Brewer has done the fields of philosophy of religion and philosophical theology a great service by highlighting the epistemological role of humility and hospitality in the quest to understand God. What emerges from the discussion is the realization that convictional differences are the necessary conditions for discovery and honest interrogation of claims to truth. Brewer uses the resources of MacIntyre’s conception of tradition-constituted rationality to negotiate the contested terrain of rival religious traditions of enquiry in such a way that what might initially be perceived as an enemy and a threat can now be seen as a friend and fellow traveler on the road to understand what remains the greatest mystery that we humans face: God.”

—Christian Early, Associate Director, Ethical Reasoning in Action, James Madison University

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