Interreligious Reading After Vatican II: Scriptural Reasoning, Comparative Theology and Receptive Ecumenism

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, controversy continues to surround this seminal event in Catholic Church history. Debates about Vatican II’s legacy are intensifying whilst the challenges raised by our increasingly complex multi–religious, multi–secular society are becoming ever more pressing. In Interreligious Reading After Vatican II  scholars from within and outside the Catholic tradition discuss and perform interreligious reading in the light of the Council. The volume focuses on two forms of study across faith traditions – Comparative Theology and Scriptural Reasoning. Contributors also consider the relationship between interreligious engagement and Receptive Ecumenism within the Church. The volume concludes with critically reflective responses from leading Catholic, Muslim and Jewish thinkers. Thought–provoking and timely, Interreligious Reading After Vatican II offers rich insights into the theory and practice of interreligious encounters,  and the continuing ramifications of the Second Vatican Council for such encounters today. 

Introduction – Interreligious Reading After Vatican II: Scriptural Reasoning, Comparative Theology and Receptive Ecumenism (David F. Ford) 1. Opening up a Dialogue: Dei Verbum and the Religions (Michael Barnes, SJ) 2. Deep Reasonings: Sources Chretiennes, Ressourcement , and the Logic of Scripture in the years before – and after – Vatican II (Kevin L. Hughes) 3.  Catholic Reasoning and Reading Across Traditions (David Dault) 4. An Analogical Reading of Christian Prophecy: The Case of Muhammad (Anna Bonta Moreland) 5. Families of Receptive Theological Learning: Scriptural Reasoning, Comparative Theology, and Receptive Ecumenism (Paul D. Murray) 6. Scriptural Reasoning and the Legacy of Vatican II: Their Mutual Engagement and Significance (David F. Ford) 7. Scriptural Reasoning and the Discipline of Christian Doctrine (Mike Higton) 8. Interreligious Reading in the Context of Dialogue: When Interreligious Reading “Fails” (Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier) 9. Long–Term Disagreement: Philosophical Models in Scriptural Reasoning and Receptive Ecumenism (Nicholas Adams) 10. In the Balance: Interior and Shared Acts of Reading (Francis X. Clooney, SJ) 11. A Good Word is a Good Tree: A Muslim Response to the Interfaith Challenges of Vatican II (Maria Massi Dakake) 12. Re–socializing Scholars of Religious, Theological, and Theo–Philosophical Inquiry (Peter Ochs) Index Notes on contributors

David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Inter–faith Programme. His publications include The Future of Christian Theology (Wiley–Blackwell, 2011), Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Shaping Theology: Engagements in a Religious and Secular World (Wiley–Blackwell, 2007). Frances Clemson is Research Associate in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and works within the Cambridge Inter–faith Programme.