Resources - Books
Books written or edited by NIFCON members are posted in order of publication. If you know the author or title you are looking for please use the search box. Whilst giving as many details as possible we regret we are unable to supply these titles from the Anglican Communion Office.
Signs and Seasons
A guide for your Christian journey
Canon Dr Graham Kings with Foreword by Rt Rev Dr Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham
ISBN: 978 1 85311 897 5 £9.99 Canterbury Press
(orders@norwichbooksandmusic.co.uk)
For the countless numbers of people who have come to faith through the Alpha course, here is a beginner's guide to spiritual formation and exploration of the next stages of the Christian journey …More
Interactive Faith
The Essential Interreligious Community Building Handbook
Edited by Bud Heckman with Rori Picker Neiss and foreward by Dirk Ficca
ISBN: 978 1 59473 237 9 & 1 59473 237 X $29.99
"An essential reference book for anyone seeking to engage in interfaiyh dialogue in any of its diverse forms. While it guides us to acknowledge real differences in belief, it also invites us into solidarity of action", Dr William Vendkley, Seccretary General of World Relgions for Peace …More
Generous Love
The truth of the Gospel and the call to dialogue
an Anglican theology of inter faith relations
Foreword by Dr Rowan D. Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
ISBN 978-0-9558261-0-86 £2.50 (where posted) a report from the Anglican Communion Network for Inter Faith Concerns published by the Anglican Consultative Council
This short treatise is the culmination of work in which NIFCON has been engaged over the last four years.it seeks to provide the discernment of a distinctively Anglican theology of inter faith relations which can be a part of the drawing together of the rich reflection which has gone on over the last forty years since Nostrae Aetate but with renewed impetus more recently. If we proclaim and serve a generous God can we be any less generous in our dealings with our neighbours of other faiths? How does our understanding of the Trinitarian nature of God, a core Christian belief, inform the content and method of our thinking about inter faith relations? How do we affirm the importance of dialogue without compromising our allegiance to the one Lord and Saviour? This document is offered for study and as a stimulus for discussion and further reflection …More
Islam, Christianity and Pluralism
The Zaki Badawi Memorial Lecture Series
Islam, Christianity, and Pluralism
by Dr Rowan D. Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
ISBN 978 1 56564 436 6 £2.95 Published by Lambeth Palace and The Association of Muslim Social Scientists
In honour of the life and work of Sheikh Zaki Badawi, OBE, KBE, and in recognition of his noted public contribution in championing the vital role of religious faith and values in the life of the nation, the AMSS has established the annual Zaki Badawi Memorial Lecture. The lecture series is dedicated to Dr Badawi's vision to foster pluralism, inter-faith dialogue, inter-cultural understanding, and social cohesion. …More
Islam and Inter-Faith Relations
The Gerald Weisfield Lectures
by Perry Schmidt-Leukel & Lloyd Ridgeon
ISBN 978 0 33404 132 0 £18.99 SCM Press
In this succinct, clarifying volume, five world-renowned Muslim theologians meet with scholars of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism to engage in a vivid dialogue. The Muslim realm once stretched from Spain to China. Islam encountered and connected with a vast spectrum of different cultures and today is obviously an incredibly significant influence across the globe. …More
Knowing Our Neighbour
A Study of Islam for Christians in Malaysia
by Albert Sundararaj Walters
ISBN 978-983-43378-1-0 RM35.00 US$15 £12 Council of Churches of Malaysia also available from the author,albertwalters@googlemail.com
In a world where religion is either frozen cold or exploding into flames, Christians and Muslims of good will must be ready to stand side by side. But mutual recognition must be hard-headed and sober based on respect that grows out of a firm understanding of the other's otherness:hence the need for this book. …More
Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road
Exploring a New Path Between Two Faiths
by Paul-Gordon Chandler
ISBN 978 1 56101 319 7 £11.99 Cowley Publications
Today's tensions between the "Islamic" East and "Christian" West run high. Here Paul-Gordon Chandler presents fresh thinking in the area of Christian-Muslim relations, showing how Christ--whom Islam reveres as a Prophet and Christianity worships as the divine Messiah--can close the gap between the two religions. Historically, Christians have taken a confrontational or missionary approach toward Islam, leading many Muslims to identify Christianity with the cultural prejudices and hegemonic ambitions of Westerners. …More
Distinctly Welcoming
Christian presence in a multifaith society
by Richard Sudworth
ISBN 978 1 84427 317 1 £8.99 Published by Scripture Union
A clear, practical guide to the core issues and challenges facing churches in their engagement with those of other faiths. Richard Sudworth is a CMS mission partner and a consultant with the organisation 'Faith to Faith'. Having previously worked in North Africa, he is now based in a Muslim-majority area of Birmingham, UK. …More
Did Jesus Feed Five Thousand People?
Hermeneutical Secrets of Johns' Gospel
by Dr Joshva Raja
ISBN 978 81 8458 004 4 Rs 95.00, $6, £5 Published by ISPCK http://ispck.org.in
This book is an attempt to rediscover the meaning of the Fourth Gospel in the Indian context. When the Synoptic Gospels focus on the historical aspect of the miracle stories, the writer of the Fourth Gospel interprets them by relating them to the sacramental and sapiential contexts of the Gospel readers. The author uses a similar style of reasoning to interpret such sign narrative to promote the Christian faith using the traditional resources and contexts of the readers and thus sets a model for doing hermeneutics in new contexts. …More
Learning From How Muslims See Christianity
by David Marshall
ISBN 1 85174 640 4 £2.95 Published by Grove Books Limited
Christians believe they have much to say to Muslims - but can we also learn from listening? Muslims often find Christian theology ridiculous, Christian prayer puzzling, and Christian approaches to society disappointing. David Marshall explores how this poses questions for Christian spirituality and discipleship. The premise of this book is that by seeing ourselves as others (in this case Muslims) see us we might learn to become better Christians …More
Relating to People of Other Faiths
By: Israel Selvanayagam
ISBN 81 7821 037 1 pbk 308 pages Published by SCC & BTTBPSA
(email cssbooks@sancharnet.in)
This book sets out to make developments in the theology of religion accessible to congregations. It "brings together biblical hermenuetics, discussion on the theology of religions, signigicant themes that need to concern a new interpretation of the faith for plurality, and exposotion of concrete texts that throw a new light on the issue." Wesley Ariaraja - author of The Bible and People of Other Faiths, WCC, 1985) …More
Guidelines for Interfaith Events & Dialogue
Prepared by the Committee for Christian Unity & the Bishops of the Church of Ireland
ISBN 978 1 904884 15 6 Pbk 31 pages Church of Ireland Publishing
Written for members of the Church of Ireland to equip them as members of a society experieincing accelerated diversity of faiths and cultures these Guidelines build on the agreement reached at a Porvoo Consultation in Oslo, Norway in 2003. They are offerd so as to be helpful in situations where people of different faiths will meet with one another and so find use beyond their immediate audience …More
Conviction and Conflict
Islam Christianity and World Order
By: Michael Nazir- Ali
ISBN 0-8264-8615-0 £14.99 Published by continiuum
Christians and Muslims must acknowledge the need for reciprocity if they are to live in harmony together, says the Bishop of Rochester, the Right Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, in a new book Conviction and Conflict. The issue is hotly political in many parts of the world. In Nigeria, Indonesia, Bosnia and other places where Islam collides with Christianity, there have been violent clashes over accusations of proselytising. Christian activists have long protested at the restrictions imposed, for example, in Saudi Arabia, where it is illegal to open any non-Muslim place of worship. …More
Faith in the Neighborhood
Understanding America’s Religious Diversity
By: Lucinda Mosher
Volume One Belonging ISBN 1-59627-010-0
Volume Two Praying ISBN 1-59627-016-0
Faith in the Neighborhood is a new series which, by interweaving interviews and personal stories with lessons in vocabulary and concepts, explores questions raised by the religious diversity of America's neighborhoods - where Christians often live side by side with adherents of Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Bahá'í, Zoroastrianism, Shinto, and Afro-Caribbean, Native-American, and traditional Chinese religions. …More
Buddhism and Christianity in Dialogue
Edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel
ISBN 0-334-04008-6 £18.99 SCM Press
Buddhism and Christianity in Dialogue continues the Weisfeld-Lectures, which were established with the first series on War and Peace in World religions, published in 2004 by SCM Press. The book is written for a general as well as a more specialist readership. On the one hand it introduces basic topics of Buddhist-Christian dialogue, on the other hand it opens up new ground: particularly insofar as the Buddhist and the Christian contributers all write comparatively …More
Celebrating Difference, Staying Faithful
How To Live In A Multi-Faith World
By: Andrew Wingate
ISBN: 0 232 52532 3 pbk 192 pages £12.95 Darton Longman + Todd
This book is written primarily for Christians who seek guidance in how to live in our multi-religious world, those who would like to talk with those of other faiths with whom they live and work and seek the confidence to do so, those who meet the issues through family, social, employment or community issues, those who want to reflect on Biblical and theological questions in this field, or are concerned about what should the mission of the church, and themselves as individual Christians, in our multi-faith society …More
The View from Mars Hill
Christianity in the landscape of World Religions
By: Charles B. Jones
ISBN: 1 56101 225 4 pbk 184 pages $14.95 Cowley Publications
What are Christians to make of religious diversity? Are other religions simply wrong? Is this great multiplicity something to appreciate and foster? Is there any way to judge whether one religion is better than another, or are all equally good options? What has brought about such a wealth of diversity and tension in the first place? Charles Jones traces the rich history of Christianity's many encounters with other religions, from the Roman Empire and Paul's speech to the Athenians on Mars Hill (Acts 17:16-34) to the "discovery" of non-European peoples, through various currents of philosophy and science, and in both the peaceful and violent meetings of Christianity and other religions today …More