Muslim-Christian
Dialogue


Messages for the end of Ramadan, from the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue:
  • August 2010 ---------- September  2009 ---------- September 2008
  • September 2007 ---------- October 2006 ---------- October 2005
  • November 2004 ---------- November 2003 ---------- November 2002
  • November 2001 ---------- December 2000 ---------- December 1999
  • January 1999 ---------- January 1998 ---------- 1997

    Jews, Christians and Muslims Form a Precedent: An Experiment of the Diocese of Osnabrück Oriented Towards Interreligious Dialogue By Winfried Verburg, head of the department schools and university in the Episcopal general vicariate, in Stimmen der Zeit, 2011

    Qur’an-Gospel Convergence: The Qur’an’s Message to Christians By Jojo Joseph in Journal of Dharma, January-March 2010

    Shia Muslim Address to Synod on the Middle East By Ayatollah Seyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Ahmadabadi, October 12, 2010

    Sunni Muslim Address to Synod on the Middle East By Muhammad Al-Sammak, October 12, 2010

    Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report published on 15 April 2010

    Postcard from Pakistan By Damian Howard SJ in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, March 2010

    Christian Responses to Muslim Questions By Christian W. Troll, S.J.

    A remarkable new beginning in the study of the Prophet Muhammad By Christian W. Troll in Herder Korrespondenz, 2010

    Ecclesiastical Magisterium, Catholic Theology, Todays' Islam: Proposals for Solutions to Key Issues By Felix Körner SJ, professor of dogmatics at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, in Stimmen der Zeit, 2010

    Interreligious Learning Process: The Future of Christian-Muslim Dialogue Is Joint Action By Volker Meißner in Herder Korrespondenz, 2010

    Dialogue with Muslims: Sensitive Topic 'Mission' By Stefan Orth in Herder Korrespondenz, 2010

    Attempts to Build Bridges: Catholics and Muslims in the USA By Ferdinand Oertel in Herder-Korrespondenz, 2010

    Christian-Muslim Relations and the Protestant Churches in Germany By Rev. Dr. Barbara Bürkert-Engel, Ludwigsburg/Germany

    Interfaith Relations in Ghana: Faith and Citizenship

    Sharing of Country Perspective: Sudan By Revd Enock Tombe, Provincial Secretary, Episcopal Church of the Sudan, Former General Secretary SCC. Discusses Christian-Muslim relations

    The Qur'an-Gospel Resurrection Resolution By Derek Eshelbrenner in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Fall 2009

    Muslims and Christians: Where Do We Stand? By Jerry Filteau and Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Woodstock Report, 2009

    Embracing the "Other" as an Extension of the Self: Muslim Reflections on the Epistle to the Hebrews 13:2 By A Rashied Omar in Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2009

    Sharing Our Paradoxes: Steps for a Dialogue between Christians and Muslims By Herman Roborgh in Eureka Street, June 25, 2009

    Paradoxes of Christianity and Islam By Herman Roborgh in Eureka Street, June 25, 2009

    Secularisation: A Matter of Common Interest and Concern for Muslims and Christians By Professor Neil Ormerod, 2009

    Muslims, Catholics and the Common Purpose of Justice and Peace By Associate Professor Kath Engebretson, 2009

    Inspiring Thinking: Why Christian Theology should be Interested in Islam By Klaus von Stosch, professor of systematic theology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the Institute for Catholic Theology of the University of Paderborn, in Herder Korrespondenz, Special, 2009

    The Church in the Face of Islam By Hans Waldenfels SJ in Stimmen der Zeit, 2009

    Joint Declaration of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue (Vatican) and the Centre for Inter-religious Dialogue of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation (Tehran, Iran) Rome, 28-30 April 2008

    Sign of Hope Between Two Advents: Christian-Muslim Dialogue Thomas Ryan, CSP

    A Place Apart By Julie Polter in Sojourners Magazine, April 2008

    Christian-Muslim Dialogue Raises Hope - and Suspicion By Jim Rice in Sojourners Magazine, April 2008

    Pluralism in Muslim-Christian Relations By John L. Esposito, Georgetown University, April 2008

    “The Arabs” in the Ecclesiastical Historians of the 4th/5th Centuries: Effects on Contemporary Christian-Muslim Relations By David D. Grafton, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2008

    A Common Word Between Us and You By Daniel Madigan SJ, of the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims, in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, January 2008

    Keeping the Lenten Fast: Thoughts from a Dialogue with Islam By Michael Barnes SJ in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, February 2008

    Are Muslims Idolaters? About a Problematic Development of the Christian Image of Islam By Michael Bongardt, professor at the Free University of Berlin and director of the Institute for Comparative Ethics, in Herder Korrespondenz, 2008

    Debating Dialogue: Where the Christian-Muslim Encounters Must Cut More Sharply By Felix Körner SJ, lecturer in fundamental theology and theology of religions and director of the formation institute for interreligious experts at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, in Stimmen der Zeit, 2008

    Irenic Interpretations? An Analysis of the 'Letter of the 138 Muslims' By Christian W. Troll in Herder Korrespondenz, 2008

    Concrete Dialogue: About What Muslims Talk with Christians in Germany By Hansjörg Schmid, expert at the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart with the focus on Christian-Islamic dialogue, in Herder Korrespondenz, 2008

    New Beginning with Dialogue: The First Conference of the Catholic-Muslim Forum By Christian W. Troll in Herder Korrespondenz, 2008

    Common Prayer of Christians and Muslims? By Christian W. Troll SJ in Stimmen der Zeit, 2008

    Difficult Coexistence: Christians and Muslims in Malaysia By Georg Evers in Herder Korrespondenz, 2008

    Religious Peace by Abraham? By Jürgen Springer in Christ in der Gegenwart, 2008

    What Unites Us, What Separates "the Abrahamic Religions"- from the Jewish Perspective? By Michael Wolffsohn in the periodical of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria 'zur debatte', 2008

    The Theology and Times of William of Tripoli, O.P.: A Different View of Islam By Thomas F. O'Meara in Theological Studies, March 2008

    Fundamentalism: A Christian Perspective By Rev. Marcus Braybrooke, a former Executive Director of the Council of Christians and Jews, UK
    Fundamentalism: An Islamic Perspective By Asaf Hussain, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of History of Religions and Political Pluralism, Leicester University, UK

    A Common Word between Us and You An open letter and call from Muslim religious leaders to religious leaders of the world, 10 September 2007

    Celebrating Pluralism and Dialogue: Qur'anic Perspectives By Asma Afsaruddin in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Summer 2007

    Christian Responses to Islam, Islamism and 'Islamic Terrorism' By Colin Chapman in Cambridge Papers, June 2007

    Dialogues of the Heart By Jamal Rahman, Muslim Sufi Minister at Interfaith Community Church and adjunct faculty at Seattle University, 2007

    Learning to Listen: Benedict XVI & Interreligious Dialogue By Francis X. Clooney in Commonweal, Jan 12, 2007

    Religion: Source of Terror and Transformation; Reflections on Seeing the Face of God in My Religious Other By Eileen R. Kinch in Cross Currents, Winter 2007

    Fethullah Gülen: Contributions to Global Peace and the Inter-religious Dialogue By Professor Greg Barton, Monash University, at Australian Catholic University, November 2007

    Institutionalizing of Muslim-Christian Dialogue: Nostra Aetate and Fethullah Gulen's Vision By Salih Yücel, Monash University

    Why I Am Not a Muslim: About Identity, Difference and Respect By Hans Zirker, professor of systematic theology at the Duisburg-Essen University, in Stimmen der Zeit, 2007

    Muhammad - Prophet also for Christians? By Christian W. Troll in Stimmen der Zeit, 2007

    How Much Islam Does Pluralism Stand? A Relationship of Tension from Muslim View By Ali Dere, professor of Hadith sciences at the University of Ankara, in Herder-Korrespondenz, 2007

    Papers and presentations by Thomas Michel, SJ, Secretary of the Jesuit Secertariat for Interreligious Dialogue in Rome, and Ecumenical Secretary for the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences
  • The Roots of Muslim Anger and its Challenge for Christians
  • Islamic Revival in Asia and its Implications for Christian-Muslim Dialogue
  • Toward a Dialogue of Liberation with Muslims
  • A Christian explains his faith to Muslims
  • Introductory Notes on the Religion of Islam
  • Christian-Muslim Relations after the Terrorist Attacks
  • Christian-Muslim relations: are we missing the real story?
  • The Trinity as radical monotheism
  • Towards a Pedagogy of Religious Encounter
  • Developments in Interreligious Dialogue with Muslims
  • The Prophets: A Blessing for humankind: Convergence between the Christian Understanding and the Risale-i Nur
  • Muslim-Christian Dialogue and Cooperation in the Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
  • Moving Beyond the Burdens of History
  • Sin and Redemption in Christian-Muslim Encounter
  • God's Unity and Trinity: the Islamic-Christian Debate
  • The Divine World and Scripture in Islam and Christianity
  • The Christian Prophet and the Prophet of Islam
  • Features of the Muslim-Christian Polemical Tradition
  • Where to Now? Ways Forward for Interreligious Dialogue: Images of Abraham as Models of Interreligious Encounter
  • Fethullah Gülen & Pope John Paul II: Two Frontrunners for Peace

    Insensitive, Provocative, Courageous - or What? Some Reflections on Pope Benedict's Lecture By Colin Chapman. Revd Colin Chapman was until 2003 Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon, 2006

    Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI By 38 Muslim clerics, in response to Benedict's Regensburg lecture, October 13, 2006

    Catholic—Muslim Good Faith Events Spring Up By Tom Ryan in the Catholic New Times, Oct 29, 2006

    Christian-Muslim Relations Essays, talks and brief notes by Joseph Kenny, O.P. between 1970 and 2006

    Catholic-Muslim Relations: Questions and Appraisal By Tom Ryan, 2006

    Nostra Aetate and the Questions It Chose to Leave Open By Daniel A. Madigan SJ, Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma, in Gregorianum, 2006

    "To believe each other capable of questioning oneself critically": An interview with the Islam expert Christian W. Troll By Stefan Orth in Herder Correspondence, 2006

    Fears: Allensbach Inquiry on the Germans' View on Islam By Ulrich Ruh in Herder-Korrespondenz, 2006

    Liberty and Faith: On Occasion of the Islamic Protest against Caricatures of Mohammed By Magnus Striet in Christ in der Gegenwart, 2006

    Muslims Condemn Terrorist Attacks This page focuses on condemnations of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and other terrorist incidents since then as well as of terrorism in general

    In the Name of God: Under Way to a Theology of Prayer in Islam and Christianity: Ten Theses By Andreas Renz, Hansjörg Schmid and Jutta Sperber in Im Namen Gottes...Theologie und Praxis des Gebets in Christentum und Islam, Würzburg: Echter-Verlag, 2005

    Trialogue between Jews, Christians, and Muslims: Considerations from a Christian Viewpoint By Hans Kessler in Stimmen der Zeit, 2005

    A Future 'Trinity' of Jews, Christians and Muslims ? Theses on a Matter of Life and Death not only for the Three Monotheist Religions By Ernst Förster SJ

    Dialogue at a Snail's Pace By Peter Hünseler, head of the office for Christian-Muslim encounter and documentation in Frankfurt/Main, an institution of the German Bishops' Conference, in Neue Stadt, December 2005

    Dialogue on Islamic Faith in the Jesuit Environment By Seid M. Zekavat

    Violence and Healing: Roman Catholic Relations with Jews and Muslims By Leo D. Lefebure in Word & World, Winter 2004

    The Journeyman – The Making of a Muslim Quaker By Brett Miller-White in Quaker Theology, Spring-Summer 2004

    Mary(am): Mary in the New Testament and the Quran By Brenda M. Johnson, M.A., at the Mount Saint Agnes Theological Center for Women, 2004

    How Ecumenical? The Vatican on Islam By Benedicta Cipolla in Commonweal, Jan 16, 2004

    Islamabad Declaration World Council of Religion, September 16, 2004

    Managing Christian-Muslim Relations in the Commonwealth: Challenges for Africa Draft Text of the Lead Paper presented by Fr Matthew Hassan KUKAH ( Kennedy School of Government , Harvard University, Boston ) at the International Conference on Christian-Muslim Relations in Commonwealth at the University of Melbourne, Australia, February 11-13, 2004

    Knowledge of Allah and the Islamic View of Other Religions By Qamar-Ul Huda in Theological Studies, June 2003

    Religious and Human Freedom By Prof Abdullah Saeed. Muslims and Christians: Where do we Stand? 2003 Jesuit Seminar Series

    A Prolegomenon to the Relation of the Quran and the Bible By Vernon K. Robbins and Gordon D. Newby, Emory University

    The Attraction of Islam: A Community of Faith & Care By David B. Burrell in Commonweal, Jan 17, 2003

    Religion and Politics: The (Not So) Great Divide By Fr Dan Madigan SJ. Muslims and Christians: Where do we Stand? 2003 Jesuit Seminar Series

    Encountering the Other By Frank Brennan SJ AO. Muslims and Christians: Where do we Stand? 2003 Jesuit Seminar Series

    Religion: Barrier or Bridge to Building Understanding By Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO. An edited version of this paper appears in Australian Mosaic, the magazine of the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Council of Australia, Issue 2, Autumn 2003

    The Kaduna Peace Declaration of Religious Leaders Signed by eleven Christian leaders including Archbishop Achigili and eleven Muslim leaders, Imams and Sheikhs and by His Excellency Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, 22 August 2002

    The Conflict of 1994 in Northern Ghana From a Missiological Perspectives By Godefroid Manunga-Lukokisa, SVD. Muslim and Christian Relations Series. 17 March 2002

    Islamic Civilization and the West: Problems of Dialogue By Nur Kirabaev. Chapter 2 of Values in Islamic Culture and the Experience of History, edited by Nur Kirabaev and Yuriy Pochta, 2002

    Modern Western Christian Theological Understandings of Muslims Since The Second Vatican Council Book by Mahmut Aydin, 2002

    Islam, the Orthodox Church and Oromo Nationalism (Ethiopia) By Abbas Haji Gnamo in Cahiers d'Études africaines, 2002

    Christian Faith and Radical Monotheism Papers of the meeting of Jesuits among Muslims that took place at La Baume in Aix-en-Provence, France, on 1-8 April, 2002, which concentrated on the theme of the Trinity in light of the encounters between Christianity and Islam

    Encounter and the Risk of Change: Religious Experience and Christian-Muslim Dialogue By Wilfred Dettling in The Way, 2002

    Islam face-a-face Christianity By Anthony O'Mahony in The Way, 2002

    The Ethics of Pardon and Peace: A Dialogue of Ideas between the Thought of Pope John Paul II and the Risale-i-Nur By Thomas Michel, S.J., Istanbul, September 2002

    An Agreement for Dialogue between the Anglican Communion and al-Azhar al-Sharif 2001

    Religious Pluralism: A Challenge for Muslims-A Theological Evaluation By Mahmut Aydin in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Spring-Summer 2001

    Christian-Muslim relations and constitutional reform By By Cathy Majtenyi in African Scribe, 2001

    Christian Witness and Ecumenism in a Society With a Muslim Majority By Johan Bonny in Encounter, March 2001

    When Muslims and Christians Marry By Rita George Tvrtkovic, America, September 10, 2001

    The Sharia in Nigeria: Challenge to Christians By John Onayekan, Archbishop of Abuja, SIST Symposium, Attakwu-Enugu, March 2001

    Education For Dialogue: A Duty For Christians and Muslims By Cardinal Francis Arinze in Pakistan Christian Voice, in L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 20/27 December 2000

    Islam as Seen from the Christian West Chapter 7 of Religion and Cooperation between Civilizations: Islamic and Christian Cultures in a Global Horizon by George F. McLean, 2000

    Christian Reflections on a Qur'anic Approach to Ecology By Thomas Michel, S.J.

    The Trinity as Radical Monotheism By Thomas Michel, S.J.

    Islamic Revival and Its Implications for Christian-Muslim Dialogue By Thomas Michel, S.J.

    The Prophets: A Blessing for humankind: Convergence between the Christian Understanding and the Risale-i Nur By Thomas Michel, S.J.

    Muslin-Christian Dialogue and Cooperation in the Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi By Thomas Michel, S.J.

    Christian-Muslim Relations: Are we missing the real story? By Thomas Michel, S.J.

    Islamic and Christian Cultures: Conflict or Dialogue Book edited by Plamen Makariev, 1999

    Islam and the Other: the Ideal Vision of Mawlana Wahiduddin Khan By Irfan A. Omar in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Summer-Fall 1999

    Where Islam & Christianity Meet: Saint Moses in the Syrian Desert By Gabriel Saiad Reynolds in Commonweal, March 12, 1999

    Pulchra Ut Luna: Some Reflections on the Marian Theme in Muslim-Catholic Dialogue By Tim Winter in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Summer-Fall 1999

    Jesuits Discuss Islam in Istambul In September 1998, 15 young Jesuits in various stages of Islamic studies came together at the Dominican Convent in Istanbul

    Christians and Muslims in Europe: Perspectives for Dialogue By Michael L. Fitzgerald, M.Afr., 1998

    Christians and Muslims: Believers in God faithful to Man A 1997 talk by Francis Cardinal Arinze, President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue

    Christian-Muslim Relations in the 21st Century By Cardinal Francis Arinze. Talk given at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 5 June 1997

    Islam & Christianity Face To Face: An Old Conflict & Prospects for a New Ending By John L. Esposito in Commonweal, Jan 31, 1997

    The Pillars of Islamic Faith: What We Should Know and Why By David B. Burrell in Commonweal, Jan 31, 1997

    "Partners for Peace" Final Statement of Faith Encounters in Social Action (FEISA) III Christian-Muslim Dialogue for Justice and Solidarity By Wisma Canossa, OHD, Jakarta, Indonesia, 31 July, 1996

    Christian-Muslim Relations: A Burdensome Past, A Challenging Future By Willem A. Bijlefeld in Word & World, Spring 1996

    Dialogue and Evangelism in Relation to Islam By Paul Varo Martinson in Word & World, Spring 1996

    Getting Real about Christian-Muslim Dialogue By C. M. Naim in Word & World, Spring 1996

    Religion and Politics in Islam: Challenge to Christian-Muslim Relations By Charles Amjad-Ali in Word & World, Spring 1996

    When a Christian Chants the Qur'an By George Dardess in Commonweal, Jan 13, 1995

    Islam and the Trialogue of Abrahamic Religions By Leonard Swidler in Cross Currents, Winter92/93

    The Challenges in Catholic–Muslim Dialogue By Fr. Elias Mallon, SA, former director of the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute of Graymoor and New York City, in Bulletin 44, May 1992

    Christian-Muslim Relations By Christian W. Troll in The Way, 1991

    The Relationship between the United Church of Christ and the Muslim Community Resolution of the 17th General Synod, 1989

    A Christian Scholar's Dialogue with Muslims By Hans Küng, director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research at the University of Tübingen, in The Christian Century, October 9, 1986

    A Contemporary Response to Islam By John Renard, SJ in Spirituality Today, 1982

    The Foundations of Islamic Religious Experience By John Renard, SJ in Spirituality Today, 1982

    Articles From the Fellowship of Faith for the Muslims

    About Christian Muslim Relations From Centre for Christian-Muslim Relations, Columban Mission Institute, Australian Catholic University

    World Peace: Muslim - Christian Dialogue By John Mackrell on "Catholics for a Changing Church"

    Articles and Essays on Muslim-Christian Dialogue Courtesy of Christopher Blosser

    Arab Group for Muslim-Christian Dialogue A Middle-Eastern group of Muslim and Christian scholars

    Links to Christian-Muslim and Interreligious Dialogue, internationally Courtesy of Oddbjørn Leirvik

    The Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Georgetown University

    The Christian Muslim Digest Seeks to provide factual coverage of stories involving Anglicans and Muslims




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