Trialogue: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in dialogue

Introduction: The cosmic dance of dialogue

pt. 1. The importance of dialogue / Leonard Swidler. What is dialogue?

The dialogue decalogue

Seven stages of deep-dialogue/critical-thinking

Trialogue

pt. 2. Preparing for dialogue: Judaism / Reuven Firestone. The way that new religions emerge

What Christians and Muslims need to know

Jews and modernity

What Jews need to know about Judaism in dialogue

Jewish "red buttons"

pt. 3. Preparing for dialogue: Christianity / Leonard Swidler. What Jews and Muslims need to know

Connections or corrosives?

Modernity: bond or barrier?

pt. 4. Preparing for dialogue: Islam / Khalid Duran. What is interreligious dialogue and what for?

Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue today

Tackling roadblocks to dialogue

Defining ourselves favorably and others unfavorably

Attitude of the churches toward Muslims

Understanding al-Qurʼan

A variety of positions

Appendix 1. Populations of religions of the world (mid-1997)

Appendix 2. Vatican Council II: Declaration on the relation of the church to non-Christian religions

Appendix 3. World Council of Churches: Striving together in dialogue (a Muslim-Christian call to reflection and action)

Appendix 4. Dialogue and jihad: jihad as dialogue

Appendix 5. Shariʼa and Muslims in Europe

Appendix 6. Muslim-Christian Seminar declaration: Valetta, Malta 1991.