Competing Narratives in the Netherlands

On May 12, 2015

By Cornelis van der Kooi It seems an unfavorable time to be discussing interfaith dialogue and mission. Throughout the world we encounter unrest about the situation in the Middle East, where the announcement of a caliphate has captured the hearts and imaginations of many of the younger generation in the region. The prospects for the […]

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Theological Education in an Urban Context

On May 12, 2015
North America, Theological Education, Urban

By Marsha Snulligan-Haney This essay argues that not only is interfaith engagement an invaluable form of Christian mission wherever Christian and other faith communities live together and share common social and geographical space, but it is also perhaps one of the most valued forms of Christian mission operable within dynamic multireligious urban contexts in North […]

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Dialogue in Egypt: From the Elite to the Street

On March 7, 2015
Africa, Copts, Egypt, Islam

By Tharwat Wahba Muslims and Christians have lived together in Egypt for fourteen centuries, and their interactions have taken a variety of expressions across the spectrum, from hostility to dialogue. However, what has happened in the last four years is a departure from historical practices. After January 2011, Christian-Muslim dialogue witnessed dramatic changes that transformed […]

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Missiology and Mission Theology in an Interfaith World

On February 6, 2015

By Amos Yong A (Humble) Manifesto Evangelical mission theology and praxis is implausible in the present time unless it is attentive to the opportunities and challenges of interfaith engagement. Although we live in an increasingly secular global context, non-Christians are mostly people of faith rather than atheists or agnostics. Credible Christian mission in a religiously […]

Good Missiology and Interfaith Dialogue

On September 2, 2014

By Samuel Escobar A Latin American Perspective In the evangelical atmosphere in which I grew up in Peru in the 1950s, a distinctive mark of a bona fide Evangelical was that he or she did not believe in or practice dialogue. We were people with convictions that were to be proclaimed, not questioned or discussed. […]

“Giftive Mission” and Interfaith Dialogue

On September 2, 2014

By Frances S. Adeney Although often seen as being in opposition, Christian mission and interreligious dialogue complement each other. Linking them requires moving beyond two stereotypes: First, that mission is a we-they activity; that is, mission involves Christians ministering to the foreigner and the strange culture, the other religion, the needy, and so forth. The […]

ENDNOTES
1. Frances S. Adeney, Graceful Evangelism: Christian Witness in a Complex World (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010).
2. Terry C. Muck and Frances S. Adeney, Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-First Century (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009).
3. See http://place.asburyseminary.edu/asburyjournal/.
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Interfaith Engagement as Prophetic Dialogue

On September 2, 2014

By Stephen Bevans When the editors of the journal sent me the invitation to reflect on the relationship between interfaith engagement and Christian mission I was quite surprised. My surprise was not that I had been asked to reflect on the topic—I certainly have something to say in this regard. My surprise, rather, was to […]