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A propaedeutic to a propaedeutic on inter-religious dialogue
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A propaedeutic to a propaedeutic on inter-religious dialogue

Margaret S. Archer, Andrew Collier and Douglas V. Porpora
Transcendence
2004
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203420683-12

Abstract

The title of this chapter may be one of the strangest I have ever affixed to anything I have written. Although in part, the title is facetious, it is also meant to be serious. In part, what follows is a propaedeutic for myself because I am admittedly a newcomer to the literature on inter-religious dialogue. In part, however, the title also describes what the newcomer to this literature actually finds. What the newcomer to this now vast literature largely finds is Christian theologians writing about the need for inter-religious dialogue, how it should be done, and what its implications are for Christianity. As the interlocutors in this exchange seem to be other Christian theologians, it can hardly be described as a dialogue that is itself inter-religious.l It itself seems more of a propaedeutic to inter-religious dialogue, although I will argue that it is also something more than that.

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