Virtue in Dialogue: Belief, Religious Diversity, and Women's Interreligious Encounter
Religious diversity is a persistent theological predicament for Christian thinkers. Historically, theologians have wrestled with the relationship between believing Christians and religious others. The clash between the Christian doctrine of salvation and non-Christian belief systems often comes down to the question, can non-Christians be "saved"? In a pluralist world, a second question arises: can believers of divergent traditions reconcile their theological differences? Is the logical answer that one believer abandon her faith convictions and promote a relativistic mindset?

This book draws upon original research, documenting conversations by women in an interreligious dialogue group, to show that when believers converse in honesty, empathy, and patience--in short, when engaged in virtuous dialogue--they can bridge the gap left by theory. When believers from different faiths come together in open conversation, it need not lead to relativism but, instead, can lead to strengthened belief. Sharing convictions with people who believe differently, sincere believers find they often come to hold their own core beliefs with newfound strength.
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Virtue in Dialogue: Belief, Religious Diversity, and Women's Interreligious Encounter
Religious diversity is a persistent theological predicament for Christian thinkers. Historically, theologians have wrestled with the relationship between believing Christians and religious others. The clash between the Christian doctrine of salvation and non-Christian belief systems often comes down to the question, can non-Christians be "saved"? In a pluralist world, a second question arises: can believers of divergent traditions reconcile their theological differences? Is the logical answer that one believer abandon her faith convictions and promote a relativistic mindset?

This book draws upon original research, documenting conversations by women in an interreligious dialogue group, to show that when believers converse in honesty, empathy, and patience--in short, when engaged in virtuous dialogue--they can bridge the gap left by theory. When believers from different faiths come together in open conversation, it need not lead to relativism but, instead, can lead to strengthened belief. Sharing convictions with people who believe differently, sincere believers find they often come to hold their own core beliefs with newfound strength.
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Virtue in Dialogue: Belief, Religious Diversity, and Women's Interreligious Encounter

Virtue in Dialogue: Belief, Religious Diversity, and Women's Interreligious Encounter

Virtue in Dialogue: Belief, Religious Diversity, and Women's Interreligious Encounter

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Religious diversity is a persistent theological predicament for Christian thinkers. Historically, theologians have wrestled with the relationship between believing Christians and religious others. The clash between the Christian doctrine of salvation and non-Christian belief systems often comes down to the question, can non-Christians be "saved"? In a pluralist world, a second question arises: can believers of divergent traditions reconcile their theological differences? Is the logical answer that one believer abandon her faith convictions and promote a relativistic mindset?

This book draws upon original research, documenting conversations by women in an interreligious dialogue group, to show that when believers converse in honesty, empathy, and patience--in short, when engaged in virtuous dialogue--they can bridge the gap left by theory. When believers from different faiths come together in open conversation, it need not lead to relativism but, instead, can lead to strengthened belief. Sharing convictions with people who believe differently, sincere believers find they often come to hold their own core beliefs with newfound strength.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781630873653
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 03/05/2014
Series: Princeton Theological Monograph Series , #193
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Mara Brecht is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at St. Norbert College in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

1 Theological "Problems" of Religious Diversity: Shifting from Soteriology to Epistemology 1

2 Epistemological Debates: Past and Present 35

3 "Evoking the Luminous" in Dialogue: A Case Study of a Women's Interreligious Dialogue Group 61

4 Alternative Contemporary Epistemological Models 89

5 Virtues and Virtuous Agents: Resources from the Aristotelian Tradition of Virtue Theory 133

6 The Virtues in Practice and Prima Facie Justification 155

7 Ultima Facie Justification and Participation through Practice 180

8 Christian Views of Interreligious Dialogue and Forms of Transformation 214

Bibliography 249

Index 263

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