A srange half-absence: reflections on A Faithful Presence
‘Not being with it’ is a reproach levelled these days against those who do not easily assume that the most recent is the most authentic. By contrast, ‘being with it’ is a quality to be coveted in the field of ‘inter‐faith’ relations. Thus, to the recipient it seemed a possible exaggeration to entitl...
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge
2004
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Jahr: 2004, Band: 15, Heft: 3, Seiten: 317-329 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Christentum
B Dialogue B Islam B Dialog B Christianity |
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Zusammenfassung: | ‘Not being with it’ is a reproach levelled these days against those who do not easily assume that the most recent is the most authentic. By contrast, ‘being with it’ is a quality to be coveted in the field of ‘inter‐faith’ relations. Thus, to the recipient it seemed a possible exaggeration to entitle a Festschrift in that area A Faithful Presence. Perhaps response is permitted, adopting the more modest A Strange Half‐absence as more apt to tell how far the academic mind may be from the realities of faith; how vested interests of ‘fund and find’ may distort inter‐cultural assessments; how far religious leaderships may be from gentle cognisance of human tribulation; how dubiously we resolve the tension between assessing and possessing faith. Or is Faithful Presence an elusive dream? |
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ISSN: | 0959-6410 |
Enthält: | In: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0959641042000233255 |