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Beyond "Holy Wars"
Forging Sustainable Peace through Interreligious Dialogue—A Christian Perspective
The 9/11 Attacks and the Disillusionment with Holy Wars
The 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks on the U.S. in 2001 shocked the world, not only because of their viciousness but also because of the disillusionment that holy wars are a phenomenon of the past. Holy wars, rather, are a reality in today's world too, threatening global peace like never before.
Christoffer Grundmann's Call for Religious Literacy and Interreligious Dialogue
In this volume Christoffer Grundmann pleads for the cultivation of religious literacy and interreligious dialogue. First, he attempts to regain an adequate understanding of religion by showing the incompatibility of abstract concepts of religion with religions actually lived. So Grundmann suggests perceiving religion as the lived relationship toward an Ultimate.
The Role of Interreligious Dialogue
Given that interreligious dialogue is communication about diverse ways of relating to the Ultimate, the religiously embedded, primarily Jewish philosophy of encounter and dialogical thinking—with its personalistic nature—comes into focus here as uniquely suited for such communication. Even though interreligious encounter implies risk, Christians cannot but engage in it fearlessly, says Grundmann, because they trust that the risen Christ will reveal himself anew as the one he really is, wherever and whenever Christians take part in dialogue with people of other faiths.
