In an test posted at La Croix, Close relative Etienne Renaud, manager of studies at the Pontifical Found of Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome explains what can and cannot be discussed in the company of the two religions:
- A regime theological address cannot go very far in the company of Islam and Christianity. It easily leads to an force. For on one sphere we bring into being a unitarian monotheism, and on the other a trinitarian monotheism. Yes, Muslims understand Jesus - called Issa - as a interpreter, but the Koran contains an certified reversal, not entirely of the deity of Christ, but in addition of his death on the cross.
So the three sizeable Christian mysteries - Trinity, transformation, redemption - are agonizingly denied, and anyway, this reversal carries with it the full weight of the set aside of the Forewarning of God. Yet, we repeatedly listen in them say: "We understand Jesus, why do you not understand Mohammed as a prophet?" Immediately Muslims knowledgeable in the Christian mysteries - auspiciously they are above and above sundry - entitle the setback.
I wish for to run through the basic distinction in the company of Muslims and Christians by a somewhat brief formula: in Islam, God gives; in Christianity, God gives "Himself".
- Therefore theology cannot be discussed?
- Yes it can, provided you don't try to clear the ill-assorted, which is what they too repeatedly try to do at such meetings. Subtle present-day are many topics of a theological order and that can be efficiently discussed together.
Not the "coldhearted focal point", but vault questions: the observe of faith for each of the religions, start, man's place, the heart of morals... Or, if you really ambition to go to the core of the faith, it would be prerequisite to repudiate debates based on dead beat arguments, and thickness oneself to listening effectively to the other's video, each in turn, in an posture of reverent understanding ("accueil"). (...)
In the Islamo-Christian address, we sometimes receive a sizeable faintness. Too repeatedly, we stack improved and improved the dreadfully generalities. The setback for us is to find buddies conscious about Christianity. That is why the "take note of from 138 Muslim leaders", which indicates a majestic knowledge of the Bible and the Gospels, is even more full of news, not with the spirit of unaffectedness that it manifests.
Note: Le Salon Beige announces despite the fact that various forum in the company of Catholics and Muslims to be open in Rome November 4-6:
A speak in the company of 24 Muslim dignitaries and 24 Catholics attitude support place November 4-6 in Rome. Pope Benedict XVI attitude greeting the participants in this parley. The Catholic-Muslim Quadrangle attitude direct 3 days and organization with the make a difference "love of God, love of one's national."
Note: Slightly of you may be concerned in reading or reviewing the tell off set by John-Paul II on Christian-Muslim children in May 2001, previously he visited the Umayyed Mosque in Damascus, Syria. Concerning is one excerpt:
I desperately imminent that our speak today in the Umayyad Mosque attitude gesture our want to advance interreligious address in the company of the Catholic Minster and Islam. This address has gained move on in behind schedule decades; and today we can be privileged for the chase we bring into being travelled together so far. At the information level, the Pontifical Meeting for Interreligious Dialect represents the Catholic Minster in this task. For above than thirty lifetime the Meeting has sent a significance to Muslims on the sever of ^Id al-Fitr at the aim of Ramadan, and I am very optimistic that this gesture has been welcomed by many Muslims as a sign of potential friendship in the company of us. In behind schedule lifetime the Meeting has acclaimed a agent committee with intercontinental Islamic Organizations, and in addition with al-Azhar in Egypt, which I had the excitement of visiting direct go out with.
The image is the heading of a website called (of all things!) Big Brother, everywhere you can find a inventory of articles in English on the address in the company of the two religions.
