Pope Gregory VII spoke of the special charity Christians and Muslims owed each other because 'we believe and confess one God, albeit in different ways. Every day we praise Him and venerate Him as Creator of the centuries and ruler of this world PL , The only way to go beyond the trivially tolerant appearance of dialogue promoted by many Muslims and by a good part of the Catholic Church Benedict XVI seems to suggest to Muslims: we must read the text in its context; and this is fundamental for beginning an Islamo-Christian dialogue.
We must reread the sacred texts to see "the circumstances of revelation" In this, the Pope is resuming the healthy tradition of interpretation which was alive in the 9th century. Unfortunately, this no longer occurs in contemporary Islam.
Yet he later shrank back from radicalism after coming close to a murder and watching people he loved become suicide bombers. He dug deeper into Islamic spirituality, and now offers a fresh and daring perspective on the way forward. Emancipate the Embryo! Britain set to enter 'brave new world'. Doubting Doubting Thomas. A Question of Empathy.
Williams himself indicated. Not only does he recognize it, but he mentions it more than once in order to condemn it. Lundquist is simply wrong on this point. In case the summary killing of apostates seems a rather unlikely prospect in contemporary Britain, especially given that Dr. Recognize that Muslims might have their own mortgages, in other words, and pretty soon you have thieves having their hands cut off on the streets of Leicester.
But rather than tell us precisely how sharia law on mortgages and inheritance threaten Christian concepts β and it would be genuinely interesting to compare the two-- she gives us as an example from history: the Caliphate in pre-medieval Spain. In Cordoba, she says, non-Muslims had second-class or dhimmi status. Now just a minute.
