Category: Book Review
“Interreligious Dialogue: An Anthology of Voices Bridging Cultural and Religious Divides,” edited by Christopher H. Grundmann; A Review
Christopher Grundmann’s edited volume is a highly accessible and important primer on the contours of interreligious dialogue. It will certainly be a welcome resource for the growing number of underg... Read More
Memorials for All? Government and Religious Expression
The issue of establishment of religion by the government is in the news again, this time dealing with a library in New Jersey. As reported here, a monument to veterans and fallen soldiers, paid for by... Read More
“Interreligious Studies: A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion,” by Oddbjørn Leirvik (a review)
In this welcome addition to the growing and emerging interdisciplinary field of interreligious studies, Oddbjørn Leirvik draws on his rich experience as both a pastor and scholar in Norway working wi... Read More
Reading: It’s Good For Interfaith
My interfaith activism was more than a decade old when I embarked upon a seemingly new career: fiction writing. From my perspective this was an extension of my non-fiction and technical writing: the e... Read More
Review of Leonard Swidler’s “Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding: Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014). 212 pages. $37.00.
This review first appeared on catholicbooksreview.org on May 5, 2016. Leonard Swidler draws on his immense (half-century-plus-years’ worth of) experience and wisdom in interreligious, intercultura... Read More
Heresy and Interfaith Dialogue
I am currently reading Medieval Heresies: Christianity, Judaism and Islam by Catherine Caldwell Ames. Reading the book has me thinking about how membership in a religious group is constructed in regar... Read More
Review of “Understanding Interreligious Relations,” ed. Cheetham, Pratt, and Thomas (Oxford UP, 2013)
This book review was cross-published on CatholicBooksReview in September, 2015. Review of Understanding Interreligious Relations. Edited by David Cheetham, Douglas Pratt, and David Thomas. Oxford Uni... Read More
Natural Theology from a Former Atheist: A Book Review of Anthony Flew’s “There is a God” Part II
Theological Analysis and Impact In part one of my book review of “There is a God” I argued that Flew’s theological deism is questionable, if not suspect. The theological impact of this b... Read More