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The new century just begun brings with it a growing need for concord, solidarity, and peace between the nations: for this is the inescapable requirement of an increasingly interdependent world, held together by a global network of exchanges and communications, in which nonetheless deplorable inequalities continue to exist.
Tragically our hopes for peace are brutally contradicted by the flaring up of chronic conflicts, beginning with the one which has caused so much bloodshed in the Holy Land. There is also international terrorism, which has taken on a new and fearful dimension, involving in a completely distorted way the great religions.
Precisely for this reason, the world's religions are challenged to show all their rich potential for peace by directing and as it were 'converting' towards mutual understanding the cultures and civilizations which draw inspiration from them.'
Pope John Paul II (from his November 2002 address to the Italian Parliament)
Pope Benedict XVI, like John Paul II, has frequently emphasized the importance of inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue. The question of Islam is, of course, a particularly urgent one, and you will find below many useful articles on this topic. The furore over the Pope's lecture at Regensburg in 2006 evoked a measured and intelligent reply from the Muslim world, which you can read here. A general article by Stratford Caldecott on dialogue between members of different religious traditions, first published in Communio, can also be found below under the title "Beyond Unity".
Introduction to this Section
Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue
Dialogue & Proclamation: Reflection And Orientations On Interreligious Dialogue
And The Proclamation Of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ (1)
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Declaration 'Dominus Iesus' on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church
Pontifical Biblical Commission
The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible
Pope John Paul II
Address to the Pontifical Biblical Commission
Pope Benedict XVI
Interreligious Dialogue and Jewish-Christian Relations
When Civilizations Meet: How Joseph Ratzinger Sees Islam
M.A. Zaki Badawi
The Challenge of Living Together
Christopher Bamford
Sacred Hospitality: Badaliya – The Way of Mystic Substitution
Fr Stuart Bate OMI
Mary and Interreligious Dialogue : Mary in 'Nostra Aetate'
Gerard V. Bradley
Divine Mirth
Stratford Caldecott
Beyond Unity An Approach to Inter-Spiritual Dialogue
His Seed Like Stars: The Dialogue Between Christians, Jews and Muslims
Christianity and World Religions
The Deep Horizon
The Transcendental Disunity of Religions
The Mystery of Islam: Further Reflections
Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy
The Future of Jewish-Christian Relations in the Light of the Visit of Pope John Paul II to the Holy Land
Dr Vincent J. Cornell
Practical Sufism: An Akbarian Basis for a Liberal Theology of Difference
Frederick Farrar
Christianity for Buddhists
Robert L. Fastiggi
The Incarnation: Muslim Objections and the Christian Response
Russell Hittinger
How to Read Humanae Dignitatis on Establishment of Religion
Walter Kasper
The Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Foundations, Progress, Difficulties and Perspectives
Spiritual and Ethical Commitment in Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Joseph Kenny OP
Jesus and Mary in Islam
Roch Kereszty, O. Cist
The Word of God
Joseph E.B. Lumbard
The Decline of Knowledge and the Rise of Ideology in the Modern Islamic World
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger
What Do Christian-Jewish Encounters Mean as Civilizations Clash?
What can Jews and Christians hope for when they meet?
Sandro Magister
Christians, Islam and the Future of Europe
Aidan Nichols, OP
A Beginner's Guide to Militant Islam
Catholicism and Other Religions
A Catholic View of Eastern Orthodoxy
Jonathan Riley-Smith & Paolo Morisi
What Were the Crusades?
Angelo Scola
Which Foundation? Introductory Notes
Samir Khalil Samir, S.J.
When Civilizations Meet: How Joseph Ratzinger Sees Islam
Paul Williams
On Rebirth: Buddhism & Reincarnation
Reza Shah-Kazemi
Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad
The Metaphysics of Interfaith Dialogue
Archbishop Rowan Williams
Analysing Atheism
SEDOS
Readers who want to pursue this subject will find a host of relevant and interesting material on the SEDOS web-site, which is based in Rome as a forum for institutes of consecrated life concerned with missionary work. The articles are sometimes of uneven quality, but very many are excellent, for example:
Donald J. Goergen, OP
The Quest for the Christ of Africa
Peter C. Phan
Conversion and Discipleship as Goals of the Church's Mission
Fr J. López-Gáy, SJ
Dialogue and Proclamation with Buddhism
Cardinal Francis George
One Lord and One Church for One World
Msgr. Michael L. Fitzgerald, M.Afr
The Role of Dialogue in Mission
Some Notes on the Islamic View of Women
Also note that the Sedos site contains numerous helpful articles on poverty, development issues and globalization.
More recommended resources for the dialogue with Islam:
Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue
For a selection of relevant links,
see the Interfaith section of our main Links page.
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