I like to promote the 7 Rules of Interreligious Dialogue that was put forward by Max Warren (Anglican Missiologist) back in the 1960s. In my Interreligious Dialogue class, I asked my students to explain the 7 Rules in their own words. I stopped in the middle of grading because I began thinking. They did a …
Continue reading Our Uniqueness in Common Humanity (Max Warren and Anton Boisen)
Inter-religious Dialogue (IRD) is often looked at critically, or straight-up negatively by Evangelicals. I teach a course called “Dialogue with Asian Faiths” and for me, I take the title seriously. It is about dialogue (two-way) conversation with people of other faiths--- especially the great world religions that have their origin in Asia (which is pretty …
Continue reading Reasons for an Evangelist to Take IRD Seriously
I find this an interesting phenomenon. Maybe you will as well. I am teaching a course in Inter-religious Dialogue. The first third of the course is on some principles of IRD, while the second deals with the beliefs of some major word religions. We had covered Rabbinical Judaism already and were now in Islam. One …
Teaching a class on Dialogue with Asian Religions, I noticed a lot of the advice related to inter-religious (or interfaith) dialogue is related to the advice that Dale Carnegie gave to people in "How to Win Friends and Influence People" published back in 1937. This slide presentation deals with some beliefs that Evangelical Christians have …