Gracious Engagement: Interfaith Dialogue and the "Other"
Laura Merzig Fabrycky Monday, 13 June 2011
When A Christian View of Islam arrived in my mailbox in Amman, Jordan, cultural claustrophobia rendered me unable to muster much interest in another narrative of "the Other." My intellectual and spiritual state echoed more common human postures—skepticism, defensiveness, and fatigue with how the Other doggedly persists in his otherness. Earlier the same week, I had chortled knowingly with some American Christians who, as they described their recent "faith-based" discussions with Jordanian Muslims, eschewed the very concept of interfaith dialogue.
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