The Prospects and Perils of Catholic-Muslim Dialogue
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (874 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0989290565 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 48 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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In particular, he highlights the problems for such dialogue presented by their different views of God and of humanity. In this study, Robert Reilly provides a careful and critical assessment of the prospects for dialogue between the Catholic Church and Islam. The author argues that dialogue between Christians and Muslims can be meaningful and fruitful, but only if both affirm a God who is reason, and that human beings possess inalienable rights.
Five Stars Fully met my expectations.
But unlike transient Western elites, Muhammad trumps the inevitable charade of recurring obsolescence by declaring a kind of pre-parliamentary cloture. Clarity on this difference is a better foundation to ongoing dialogue and selective collaboration than is a presumed identical understanding in the Open Letter of even the two great commandments of love of God and love of neighbor. Man in the image of God supposedly violates First Commandment's assertion of God's supremacy, while the very notion of an image of God violates its prohibition of making images of the things of heaven. With the Qur'an he becomes the terminal prophet in all of history. That a joint effort of Catholics and Muslims would pull punches in describing sensitive subjects is easy enough to understand. The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, in 1990 appended to the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, subordinates the latter document to Shari'a. The sticking
Robert Reilly is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and a member of the board of the Westminster Institute and of the Middle East Media Research Institute.