The Past, Present, and Future of Theologies of Interreligious Dialogue

The Past, Present and Future of Theology of Interreligious Dialogue brings together several of the most widely regarded specialists who have contributed to theological reflection on religious diversity and interreligious encounter. The chapters are united by the consistent theme of the obligation to engage with the challenges that emerge from the tension between the doctrinal tradition(s) of Christianity and the need to reconsider them in light of and in response to the fact of religious otherness. As a whole, these reflections are motivated by the desire to bring together a significant selection of different theological approaches that have been developed and appropriated in order to engage with religious difference in the past and present, as well as to suggest possibilities for the future. This confluence of perspectives reveals the complexity of theological reflection on religious diversity, and gives some indication of future challenges that must be acknowledged, and perhaps successfully met, in the ongoing attempt to address a universal reality in light of traditional doctrinal particularities and cultural concerns.

Terrence Merrigan is Professor of Systematic Theology in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leuven.

John Friday is a postdoctoral researcher in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leuven.

Introduction, Terrence Merrigan & John Friday
1. Pneumatological Foundations for a Catholic Theology of Interreligious Dialogue, Dermot Lane
2. Catholic Theology vis-a-vis Religions and Dialogue 50 Years after Vatican II. Reflections on the Compatibility of some 'new criteria' with Doctrine, Ilaria Morali
3. Accounting for the Particular: The Promise and Pitfalls of an Incarnational Hermeneutics of Interreligious Dialogue, Terrence Merrigan
4. Discerning Criteria of Religious Experience in Theology of Interreligious Dialogue: Insights from William James and Bernard Lonergan, John Friday
5. Discerning Doctrine: Interreligious Dialogue as Experiential Source of Theology, Michelle Voss Roberts
6. Christianity and Religious Cosmopolitanism, Felix Wilfred
7. Marginal Notes: Women and Other Others in the Theology of Religions, Jeannine Hill Fletcher
8. Recent Evangelical Theology of Religions: Discerning the Divine and the Demonic through Dialogue, Wouter Biesbrouck
9. A Discerning Doctrinal Magisteriuma The Question of the Jewish People and the Development of Doctrine Arising from Vatican II
10. The Future of Inter-religious Dialogue in the Light of Ramon Lull s Contribution to the Encounter of Religions, Annemarie Mayer
11. Comparative Theology: Between Text and Ritual, Marianne Moyaert
12. Discerning Comparison: Between the Garland of Jaimini s Reasons and Catholic Theology, Francis X. Clooney
13. Soteriological Agnosticism and the Future of the Theology of Interreligious Dialogue, Catherine Cornille
General Conclusion, Terrence Merrigan & John Friday