Quinn Welcoming the Interfaith Future

Religious Pluralism in a Global Age
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4539-0881-5
Verlag: Peter Lang New York
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 6, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Episcopal and Anglican Theology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quinn, Frederick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Anglikanische und episkopale Kirchen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Über Autor(innen)

Quinn, Frederick
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.

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.