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| Autore | Borrmans Maurice |
| Titolo | Dialogare con i musulmani ancora e sempre |
| Rivista | Ad gentes |
| Annata | 17 |
| Fasc. | 1 |
| Anno | 2013 |
| Pagine | 52-66 |
| Campo Tematico | Interreligiositą |
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| Abstract | The European Churches have multiplied their institutions for dialogue and strive to develop it in all its forms, but a growing number of the faithful criticize and even reject the Christian-Muslim dialogue, giving as a pretext various sorts of political and cultural, or theological and spiritual reasons. The Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have constantly insisted on the need to pursue this dialogue ?still and always?, despite everything. Even what looked like a ?slip-up?, as the conference of Regensburg (September 12, 2008), should have been transformed into an opportunity; but the first response from the Muslim side, with the so-called Letter of 138 Muslim Scholars (October 2008), was forgotten too soon. For his part, already in 1990 Cardinal Martini led the Italian Church to a precise track with the Pastoral Letter We and Islam, which still retains all its relevance. Christians must have their answer ready for people who ask them the reason of their faith, and to explain to Muslims all the Christian values that are inherent in the European culture in which they have decided to integrate. To do this, however, Christians must first enter with sympathy and empathy in the religious and cultural traditions from which their ?new neighbors? come. |
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