Conference papers: Dancing with Diversity – Revisiting the Scandal of Particularity in the context of inter-religious dialogue

February 11, 2025

This day conference, arranged by the Inter Faith Theological Advisory Group, took place on 14 November 2024.

What is distinctive and particular about Christianity? How can we be faithful to that uniqueness whilst being genuinely open to others in a world of many faiths and belief systems?

This day conference explored these and other questions through the doctrine of the resurrection of Jesus Christ: each of the resurrection encounters in the Gospels offers disruption and destabilization of human life – its routines, expectations, disappointments and its grief. Thus, the doctrine of the resurrection is a useful means of engaging with the disruptive tendency that is at the very heart of interreligious dialogue: for to engage in dialogue is to engage in a disruptive paradox – to engage with the world as it is and yet seeking to disrupt it by seeking reconciliation and the end of hatred and violence.

Conference papers

Revd Dr Graham Adams, Luther King Centre, Manchester

• Do not hold on to me: Resurrection as a basis for an unsteady dance

Canon Dr Clare Amos, Diocese of Europe

• “Beyond the binary: The scandal of particularity and the grace of divine plenitude”

Revd Dr Peter Colwell, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland

• A Haunted Dance: Christianity Particularity and the Perplexity of Religious Pluralism

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