Five Voices Five Faiths: An Interfaith Primer - Softcover

Hughes, Amanda Milly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1561012726 ISBN 13: 9781561012725

Publisher: Cowley Publications, 2005

Synopsis

In this unique book about the major religious traditions of the world, a practitioner from each tradition--Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam--introduces the basics of his or her faith and participates in a conversation about the challenge

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From the Inside Flap

Some may say that my only obligation to other non-Christian believers is to preach the good news of God in Christ Jesus. They may also believe that participating in interfaith dialogue and relationship, by the very nature of the task, causes me to disobey the gospel mandate to go into the world and make disciples of all people. I understand the position, and for much of my life subscribed to it. But today, as a middle-aged woman, with grown children and aging parents, another line from the Christian gospels compels me. Today, I reflect more deeply on the new commandment Jesus gave, to love one another as he has loved us. In order to be obedient to that commandment, I understand myself to be required to participate in conversations in which I am not afforded the last word or the luxury of full agreement, compliance, or conversion. This love requires that I involve myself in the lives of others, even when my most basic human instinct is to run, to hide, and to avoid the unfamiliar. The love that Jesus commands of me requires that I, as he has done before me, kindle and engender deep relationships with those others: the outcast, the unfamiliar, the different, and the very ones that we presume constitute the greatest threat to our institutional and cultural norms. —from the Introduction, by Amanda Millay Hughes

About the Author

Anantanand Rambachan is professor of religion and philosophy at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota.

Yaakov Ariel grew up in Jerusalem and teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Patricia Phelan, Taitaku Sensei, is Abbess of the Chapel Hill Zen Center, a Buddhist temple and Zen meditation center in North Carolina.

Amanda Millay Hughes is director of special projects at the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Lost and Found.

Amy Nelson is a nationally recognized freelance radio journalist who lives in Durham, North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cowley Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1561012726
• ISBN 13: 9781561012725
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144