Pathways to Peace: Interreligious Readings and Reflections

Bill and Jean Lesher's Lifetime Interfaith Partnership

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A Vindication for Interreligious Cooperation

Association of Professional Chaplains Website. Links to Multifaith and Religion Sites.

At the Edge of the Enclosure

The mystery of being, unveiled as absolute love, coming down to wash the feet and the souls of its creatures; a love that assumes the whole burden of our guilt and hate, that accepts the accusations that shower down; the disbelief that veils God again when he has revealed himself; all the scorn and contempt that nails down his incomprehensible movement of self-abasement- all this absolute love accepts in order to excuse his creature before himself and before the world. It is too much of a good thing; nothing in the world can justify a metaphysic of that order, and not therefore the sign called 'Jeus of Nazareth', isolated, so hard to decipher, so inadequately supported by history.

To erect so magnificent a structure on such flimsy foundations is to go beyond the bounds of reason. We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us. And so paradoxically, the more we turn toward beauty, the more we turn away from it.

For it is in the opposite direction. We turn outward and it is within. I will go seek My bride. And take upon Myself. Her weariness and labors.

In which she suffers so;. And that she may have life. I will die for her,.

And, lifting her out of that deep,. I will restore her to You. Meditation Three integration the mightiest god A dispute once arose among the sages which of the three gods was greatest. They applied to the greatest of all sages to determine the point.

Pathways to Peace

He undertook to put all three gods to a severe test. He went first to Brahma, and omitted all obeisance. The god's anger blazed forth, but he was at length pacified.

Next he went to the abode of Siva, and omitted to return the god's salutation. The irascible god was enraged, his eyes flashed fire, and he raised his Trident weapon to destroy the sage. But the god's wife, Pirvatt, interceded for him. Lastly, Bhrigu went to the heaven of Vishnu, whom he found asleep. To try his forbearance, he gave the god a good kick on his breast, which awoke him.

Interreligious Readings and Reflections

Hassner The Other Peace Process: American Civil Religion since by Raymond J. Hammond In Search of Solutions: Ebel Justice and Mercy Will Kiss: Duffey Religion, conflict and military intervention by Rosemary Durward.

Can Faiths Make Peace?: Brantmeier Understanding religious violence: Larsson Religion Macht Frieden: Weingardt Bridging the divide: Omar Believers in the battlespace: Gabriel Just wars, holy wars, and jihads: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim encounters and exchanges by Sohail H.

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