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Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination
Michael Barnes
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Description for Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination
hardcover. Demonstrates how learning to engage with different religious traditions can deepen and reinvigorate one's own faith. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: HRAF; HRLB; HRLK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 630. Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination. 306 pages. Demonstrates how learning to engage with different religious traditions can deepen and reinvigorate one's own faith. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HRAF; HRLB; HRLK. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 20. Weight: 630.
Taking the theme of learning as central to the responsible practice of interfaith dialogue, Michael Barnes discusses a Christian spirituality which builds on virtues of hospitality and the welcoming of other traditions, whilst maintaining the importance of difference and particularity in the search for meaning. Each chapter explores how faith grows as a person crosses a threshold into another religious world and learns sensitivity to echoes of the known in the unknown. Encounters with the religious other, refracted through texts, conversations, artefacts and places, are used to illustrate the ancient Patristic theme of 'seeds of the Word'. Cumulatively they show ... Read more
Taking the theme of learning as central to the responsible practice of interfaith dialogue, Michael Barnes discusses a Christian spirituality which builds on virtues of hospitality and the welcoming of other traditions, whilst maintaining the importance of difference and particularity in the search for meaning. Each chapter explores how faith grows as a person crosses a threshold into another religious world and learns sensitivity to echoes of the known in the unknown. Encounters with the religious other, refracted through texts, conversations, artefacts and places, are used to illustrate the ancient Patristic theme of 'seeds of the Word'. Cumulatively they show ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107012844
SKU
V9781107012844
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About Michael Barnes
Michael Barnes is Reader and Senior Lecturer in Interreligious Relations at Heythrop College, University of London. He has written a number of articles and books on interreligious relations, including Walking the City (1999), Traces of the Other (2000) and Theology and the Dialogue of Religions (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Reviews for Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination
'[This] work has important implications for the way Christians should approach evangelism in multi-faith contexts.' The Times Literary Supplement