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Toward Our Mutual Flourishing : The Episcopal Church, Interreligious Relations, and Theologies of Religious Manyness.

Mosher, Lucinda Allen.

Toward Our Mutual Flourishing : The Episcopal Church, Interreligious Relations, and Theologies of Religious Manyness.

Mosher, Lucinda Allen.

9781453909928

Mosher, Lucinda Allen.

1 online resource (208 pages)

Studies in Episcopal and Anglican Theology ; v.3

Studies in Episcopal and Anglican Theology

Contents -- Preface xi -- Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction 1 -- Context 1 -- Defining Religion 2 -- The Fact of Manyness 3 -- The Theological Construction Zone 4 -- Sources of Episcopal Church Teaching 5 -- Citation of Sources 8 -- Themes 9 -- Notes 10 -- I Interfaith Movement The Episcopal Church's Principles for Dialogue 11 -- A Global Phenomenon 11 -- Landmarks 12 -- Early Records 14 -- Lambeth Conference and Interfaith Concerns 15 -- Principles for Interfaith Dialogue (1994) 19 -- Continuing Involvement 22 -- The Ecumenical Preference 25 -- Notes 27 -- II Embracing Ecumenism Interfaith Relations and the Churches 29 -- Interfaith Relations and the Churches (1999) 30 -- Some Observations 38 -- Further Resources 39 -- Notes 42 -- III Eschewing Contempt Episcopal Guidelines for Christian-Jewish Relations 43 -- Christian Anti-Judaism and Supersessionism 43 -- Toward a Dialogical Relationship 45 -- Guidelines (1988) 48 -- Episcopal Worship and Jewish Concerns 55 -- Reconstructing Theology 64 -- Competing Commitments 66 -- Notes 69 -- IV Common Words The Episcopal Church Considers Islam 71 -- On Waging Reconciliation 73 -- Renewing Our Pledge 79 -- Marking a Decade 84 -- Notes 86 -- V Relating Multireligiously Locating and Justifying Interfaith Relations 89 -- Locating the Work 89 -- Missiology and the Rationale for Interreligious Dialogue 91 -- Interreligious Relations Statement (2006) 96 -- Theological Statement on Interreligious Relations (2009) 97 -- Toward Credibility and Applicability 107 -- Notes 111 -- VI Interreligious Ecclesiology Toward Our Mutual Flourishing 113 -- Religious Manyness-Making Meaning of the Fact 113 -- Distinctly Episcopal 119 -- Interfaith Relations as Social Teaching 126 -- Practicality 126 -- Ecclesiology 128 -- Notes 130 -- Appendix 133 -- Guidelines for Christian-Jewish Relations, 1988 133.

Principles for Interfaith Dialogue, 1994 138 -- Interfaith Relations and the Churches A Policy Statement, 1999 141 -- A Sermon Preached by the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold September 21, 2001 152 -- On Waging Reconciliation, September 26, 2001 154 -- Companions In Transformation, 2003 (Excerpts) 155 -- Renewing Our Pledge, 2008 161 -- Theological Statement on Interreligious Relations, 2009 167 -- Bibliography 177 -- Index 185.

In Toward Our Mutual Flourishing: The Episcopal Church, Interreligious Relations, and Theologies of Religious Manyness, the author tells the story of The Episcopal Church's development of an official rationale for its ongoing engagement with religious diversity. At once a work of historical, moral, and practical theology, this volume contextualizes and explains what one church teaches about how religious difference may be interpreted in Christian terms. Through guided reading of noteworthy documents, this book explores such themes as this church's preference for ecumenical interfaith work, its particular attention to Christian-Jewish and Christian-Muslim concerns, the relationship between missiology and theological understanding of religious diversity, and the intersection of interreligious relations with other ecclesial concerns - peace and justice activism, liturgical reform efforts, and what it means to be the Body of Christ in the twenty-first century. The author thus positions this multinational, multicultural, multilingual denomination within the Interfaith Movement, the Anglican theological tradition, and the various schemes for analyzing Christian theologies of religions. About The Episcopal Church (but not just for Episcopalians), about Christianity (but not just for Christians), this book is an excellent resource for courses in interreligious dialogue, Christian ethics, and American religious history.

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