Viewpoints: The Value of Inter-Faith Dialogue

Viewpoints: Art and Architecture as Locus for Dialogue: Inter-Religious Dialogue Through Art

The Value of Faith

Aaron Reid In his short story “The Rich Brother” Tobias Wolff delineates a tale of two brothers who have many external differences resulting from their differences in faith. The two brothers are Pete and Donald, and they live in present day California, where their lives are much different from each other. Pete owns a Century 21 franchise and has a wife and two children, and many highly regarded...

Learnings for the Future of Inter-Faith Dialogue Part II : Insights evoked by intractable international differences

ALTHOUGH Part I of this article, in the previous issue, focused on the Parliament of the World's Religions (Chicago, 1993) as a major inter-faith event, "faith" can usefully be understood in a broader sense than in relation to religion. Dialogue is a challenge in many arenas where the entrenched "beliefs", "faiths" or "religions" may correspond to political or ideological factions, philosophies...

Tabatabai’s Viewpoints about Islam and Faith

Islam and faith are two Quranic concepts about which various viewpoints have been presented. From Fakhr-e Razi’s viewpoint, faith means genuine acceptance and firm belief based on reason, acceptance of the prophet Muhammad along with whatever he has proposed and also verbal acknowledgement. From Allameh Tabatabai’s viewpoint it has different definitions some of which are related to basic factor...

The Necessity of Inter-Religious Dialogue and Its Philosophical and Dogmatic Obstacles

In this paper, the need for interfaith dialogue in the contemporary world has been emphasized in the light of the rise of ISIS and other takfiri movements. This necessity has been understood both by political and religious authorities in the Shiite world and by Christian religious authorities. It will be shown that the central message of all Abrahamic religions is theism; that is, the ...