Teaching a class on Dialogue with Asian Religions, a question was brought up by one of the students (one raised as a Christian in a country where Christians are most definitely a minority faith). How does one effectively have dialogue (and possibly evangelizing) with someone who is focused on bad history with other Christians, or …
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Video for “Dialogue With Asian Faiths”
https://player.vimeo.com/video/498619663 Course at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary--- Online Jan-May 2021
IRD Intro
I decided to make some minor updates to my book, "Dialogue in Diversity: Christians in Conversation with a Multi-faith World" during quarantine. I decided to put the Introduction here. Imagine that you have a toolbox. Maybe you are a carpenter, but in your toolbox you have only one tool — perhaps a hammer. Can you …
The Turing Test and IRD
I have never been a fan of the Turing Test. Alan Turing (1912-1954) proposed a test for determining whether and artificial intelligence can think "like a human." The test suggests that if a person was communicating with an AI and was unable to distinguish whether or not he was talking to a computer or a …
Is Dialogue Contradictory to Evangelism?
Dialogue is in contradiction to Evangelism. Or is it? Dialogue is generally thought of as conversation between two equals (certainly equals in terms of roles in conversation) so as to achieve mutual understanding. As such it is not driven by a desire to coerce another, or change another's mind. From this standpoint, it is certainly …
How to Keep Them Talking???
I was looking at a blog of one of my favorite Asian theologians. His blog is on Patheos. Patheos appears to be a webspace that allows bloggers (especially theological or religious) to reside. I am not sure if they allow the bloggers to be monetized, but there are an awful lot of advertisements. Much of …
Reflection on Interreligious Dialogue Class
Background. I was teaching a class on Dialogue with Asian Religions at seminary. One day, one of my students, a Muslim Background Believer, came to me and asked whether he could teach a couple of class hours on Islam. I was rather relieved by this. Islam is not a religion that interests me particularly, but …
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Chapter 5. Models of IRD (part 2)
<Continued from previous post> “Poles” of Interreligious Dialogue Harvie Cox has noted that interreligious dialogue must address two elements that exist between two different religions or faiths. These are the universalistic elements and the particularistic elements. Religions address universal human concerns and questions. Not only do they address common concerns, often they come up with …
Chapter 5. Models of IRD (part 1)
Chapter 5 from "Dialogue in Diversity: Christians in Conversation with a Multi-faith World." Views of Salvation There are many views regarding Interreligious dialogue. Not only are there many views, there are many labels and many classifications for IRD. In this book, we will use a spectrum based on the people's understanding with regards the the …