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Interfaith Perspectives on Reconciliation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

David B. Burrell C.S.C.
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Reconciliation Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge, Michaelmas 2002 Lectures
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New Blackfriars , Volume 85 , Issue 995 , January 2004 , pp. 44 - 55
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Copyright © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2004

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1 This is the burden of Karl Rahner's celebrated “world-church” lecture, published in Theological Studies 40 (1979)as “Towards a Fundamental Interpretation of Vatican II.”

2 Nostra Aetate, par 3..

3 On his issue, see DiNoia, Augustine O.P., Diversity of Religions(Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1992)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, D’Costa, Gavin, Theology and Religious Pluralism(New York: Oxford, 1986)Google Scholar, and Griffiths, Paul: Problems of Religious Diversity(Malden, MA / Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)Google Scholar.

4 What Paul Griffiths calls “the neuralgic point of creative conceptual growth for Christian thought”(Problems, 97). Why else would it prove ‘neuralgic’ except for this propensity?

5 New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970; 1–5.

6 Summa Theologiae 1.13.5, with an illuminating Appendix to the Blackfriars’ edition by Herbert McCabe on “imperfect signification”(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965); see my “Maimonides, Aquinas and Ghazali on Naming God,” in Ochs, Peter, ed., The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity(New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1993) 233–55Google Scholar.

7 The God of Faith and Reason(Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1989)Google Scholar; for an extended reflection on Wittgenstein's aphorism, “theology as grammar,” see George Lindbeck: The Nature of Doctrine(Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984).

8 Jean Daniélou Salvation of the Nations; translated by Angeline Bouchard (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1962).

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11 See my Knowing the Unknowable God(Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986)Google Scholar; the term ‘Islamicate” was coined by Marshall Hodgson to convey the extensive cultural milieu: Venture of Islam(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974)Google Scholar.

12 Orthodoxy(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1996Google Scholar; original, 1908); excepting radical Calvinist views which have given the doctrine an unacceptable name.

13 Harris, Rabia Terri, “Nonviolence in Islam: the Alternative Community Tradition,” in Smith-Christopher, Daniel L., ed., Subverting Hatred: the Challenge of Nonviolence in religious Traditions(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998) 95–114Google Scholar, at 101. See the four-volume study of Massignon, Louis: the Passion of al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, translated by Mason, Herbert (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975)Google Scholar, and Herbert Mason's dramatic précis: The Death of al-Hallaj(Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979)Google Scholar.

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15 Rabia Terri Harris, note 12, 103; see Easwaren, Eknath: A Man to Match his Mountains: Badshah Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam(Petaluma, CA: Nilgiri Press, 1984)Google Scholar.

16 See my review of two studies by Wohlman, Avital: “A Philosophical Foray into Difference and dialogue: Avital Wohlman on Maimonides and Aquinas,”American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (2002) 181–94Google Scholar.

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18 See David Sasha in Sephardic Heritage Update(8 October 2002), available from [email protected].

19 For the relations among Revealer, revealing Word, and receiving community, my suggestion of the triadic structure of Abrahamic faiths in Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions(Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993)Google Scholar.

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22 Mary Louise Gude, C.S.C., Louis Massignon…(note 14) 214ff.

23 I am indebted to Dan Philpott for showing me the essay by Ronald Wells: “Northern Ireland: A Study of Friendship, Forgiveness and Reconciliation,” which will appear in his edited book: