Learned ignorance : intellectual humility among Jews, Christians, and Muslims - Heft, James; Firestone, Reuven, 1952-; Safi, Omid, 1970- (New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2011)
Part I. Learned Ignorance and Interreligious Dialogue : -- 1. Some requisites for interfaith dialogue / David B. Burrell -- 2. Learned ignorance and faithful interpretation of the Qur'an in Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) / Pim Valkenberg -- 3. "Seeing the sounds" : intellectual humility and the process of dialogue / Michael A. Signer -- 4. Finding common ground : "Mutual knowing," moderation, and the fostering of religious pluralism / Asma Afsaruddin -- Part II. Must Particularity be Exclusive? : -- 5. Humble infallibility / James L. Heft -- 6. Chosenness and the exclusivity of truth / Reuven Firestone -- 7. The belief in the incarnation of God : source of religious humility or cause of theological pride? / Oliver-Thomas Venard -- 8. Supernatural Israel : obstacles to theological humility in Jewish traditions / Shira L. Lander -- 9. Walking on divine edge : reading notions of arrogance and humility in the Qur'an / Afra Jalabi -- Part III. Violence, Apologies, and Conflict : -- 10. After Augustine :humility and the search for God in historical memory / Elizabeth Groppe -- 11. Apology, regret, and intellectual humility : an interreligious consideration / Michael B. McGarry -- 12. Islamic theological perspectives on intellectual humility and the conditioning of interfaith dialogue / Mustaf Abu Sway -- Part IV. Religious Pluralism : -- 13. A meditation on intellectual humility, or on a fusion of epistemic ignorance and covenantal certainty / Stanislaw Krajewski -- 14. Saving "Dominus Iesus" / Daniel Madigan -- 15. Between tradition and reform : between premodern Sufism and the Iranian reform movement / Omid Safi -- Epilogue : The purpose of interreligious dialogue / James L. Heft, Reuven Firestone, and Omid Safi
Proceedings of a conference held in June 2007 at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Catholic Church -- Relations -- Congresses; Abrahamic religions -- Congresses; Religions -- Relations -- Congresses