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In Common Words in Muslim-Christian Dialogue Vebjørn L. Horsfjord offers an analysis of texts from an international dialogue process between Christian and Muslim leaders. Through detailed engagement with the Muslim dialogue letter A Common Word between Us and You (2007) and a large number of Christian responses to it, the study analyses the dialogue process in the wake of the Muslim initiative and shows how the various texts gain meaning through their interaction.
The author uses tools from critical discourse analysis and speech act analysis and claims that the Islamic dialogue initiative became more important as an invitation to Muslim-Christian dialogue than as theological reflection. He shows how Christian leaders systematically chose to steer the dialogue process towards practical questions about peaceful coexistence and away from theological issues.
The author uses tools from critical discourse analysis and speech act analysis and claims that the Islamic dialogue initiative became more important as an invitation to Muslim-Christian dialogue than as theological reflection. He shows how Christian leaders systematically chose to steer the dialogue process towards practical questions about peaceful coexistence and away from theological issues.
Price: $78.00
Pages: 270
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Currents of Encounter
Publication Date:
16 November 2017
ISBN: 9789004355200
Format: Paperback
Vebjørn L. Horsfjord, Ph.D. (2015), University of Oslo, is senior lecturer in interreligious studies at the Faculty of Theology of that university. He has published on interreligious relations and human rights, and has long experience from facilitating international interreligious dialogue.