David Grafton
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia |
“’The Death of Christ on a Cross’:
A 19th Century Lutheran-CMS Missionary Pamphlet:
From Published Tracts to the Internet and Social Networking Sites”
ABSTRACT:
Protestant Reformers exploited the fledgling printing press to publicize their views throughout the 17th century. By the 19th century, Protestant mission agencies utilized the printing press as an important method of evangelism, publishing Bibles and tracts in a variety of indigenous languages. Within the Middle East specifically, printing presses in Malta, then Beirut and later Cairo published Bibles, tracts and a wide variety of educational texts for mission schools in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and Turkish…
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Gwynne Guibord
Founder/President of The Guibord Center |
“Standing Together: A Grassroots Model of Christian – Muslim Dialogue and Study”
ABSTRACT:
In the post- 9/11 era, it became clear that there needed to be an ongoing dialogue between Christians and Muslims. In January 2006, the Rev. Dr. Gwynne Guibord, along with Jihad Turk (Director of Religious Affairs for the Islamic Center of Southern California), convened The Christian-Muslim Consultative Group, a group of Christian and Muslim leadership in Southern California. This group, representing leadership in the mainline Christian denominations and several of the largest and most influential Muslim organizations in Southern California, was created to promote learning, dialogue, and advocacy among the representative members of the CMCG and their wider communities of faith…
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Yvonne Haddad
Professor, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding |
“Anglican Approaches to Christian-Muslim Dialogue:
A reassessment”
Anglican engagement in Christian-Muslim dialogue has gained traction in several areas. The paper will provide an overview of various efforts throughout the Anglican Communion (particularly in the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Egypt, and Pakistan) to concretize the theological rationale agreed upon at the Lambeth Conferences of 1988 and 1998. It will analyze the internal debates within the church on issues such as “hospitality and Embassy,” “witness and mission” as well as “reciprocity”. It will draw attention to the successful on-going efforts to engage both Muslims and Christians in reflection on each other’s’ scriptures in the Building Bridges initiative.
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Mark N. Swanson
Professor, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago |
“What Dialogue? In Search of Arabic-language Christian-Muslim conversation in the early Islamic centuries”
ABSTRACT:
The ongoing project Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009- ), of which three large volumes have been published (for the years 600–1200) and two more are forthcoming (1200–1500), is a recent monument to the extensive body of Christian-Muslim apologetic and controversial literature in the various languages of the Christian East, and especially in Arabic. This body of literature, still very imperfectly known, has slowly but steadily been attracting the attention of scholars seeking wisdom from the past for the task of Christian-Muslim dialogue today. However, there is an increasing sense among many students of the literature that, even in texts that claim to be dialogical in nature, Christian authors are usually addressing Christians, and Muslims Muslims…
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