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Scriptures in Dialogue
A successor volume to The Road Ahead
Edited by Michael Ipgrave
ISBN 07151 4012 4 Church House Publishing £12.95
In April 2003, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, convened a group of twenty-five leading Christian and Muslim scholars for three days of theological dialogue. Scriptures in Dialogue presents a record of this seminar, held in Dohar at the invitation of the Amir of Qatar. The focus of this gathering was the intensive study of passages from the Qur'an and the Bible. Combining scholarship with commitment to the practice of their faiths in the modern world, the participants addressed questions such as discernment of the Word of god, the place of women in their believing communities, and making space for the religious "Other."
At a time when the world's attention was fixed on the conflict in Iraq, this inter faith gathering was also a hopeful sign of the deepening of the dialogue between Christians and Muslims.
Scriptures in Dialogue includes:
Papers by Vincent Cornell, Basit Koshul, Esther Mombo, Mona Siddiqui, Tim Winter, Tom Wright and Frances Young.
Substantial summaries of the discussions which took place as Biblical and Qur'anic texts were read in small groups by Christians and Muslims together.
Brief reflections from participants on the place of scripture in their own lives as believers.
A major lecture on inter faith relations given by Rowan Williams in Birmingham shortly after the seminar.
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