Title Engaging with Bediuzzaman Said Nursi : a Model of Interfaith Dialogue.

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Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (188 pages)
Contents	Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part One Learning from Said Nursi; 1 Introduction: Christian Theology and Islam; 2 Religious Basis for Ethics; 3 Challenging Atheism; 4 Living Life Accountable; 5 Faith First, Politics Second; 6 Engaging Religious Diversity; 7 Coping with Globalization; 8 Grounded Spirituality: The Challenge of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi; 9 What Christians Can Learn from Bediuzzaman Said Nursi; Part Two: Rethinking Dialogue; 10 The Dialogue Industry; 11 Learning from India; 12 A New Decalogue.
	13 Conservatives and Dialogue: Why It Is Essential to Get Conservatives Excited about the Dialogue14 Neither Conservative nor Liberal: A Theology of Christian Engagement with Non-Christian Tradition; 15 Conclusion; Index.
Summary	Too often interfaith dialogue is generic and unfocused. Often it involves 'liberals' from each tradition coming together to criticize the 'conservatives' in their own traditions. This book provides a model for interfaith dialogue that challenges very directly the 'dialogue industry'. This book involves a Christian theologian in deep conversation with a Muslim theologian. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) was born at the end of the Ottoman Empire and lived through the emergence of an aggressive secular state. He had to think through, in remarkably creative ways, the challenge of faith within a.
Note	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject	Nursi, Said, 1873-1960.
	Nursi, Said, 1873-1960. (OCoLC)fst00044525
	Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
	Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
	Dialogue -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
	Dialogue -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
	Nurculuk.
	RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
	RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
	BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
	Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00859599
	Dialogue -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00892494
	Dialogue -- Religious aspects -- Islam. (OCoLC)fst00892495
	Interfaith relations. (OCoLC)fst01353343
	Islam. (OCoLC)fst00979776
	Nurculuk. (OCoLC)fst01041434
Other Form:	Print version: 9780754669319
ISBN	9780754696797 (electronic bk.)
	0754696790 (electronic bk.)

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