Turkish response to the Christian call for dialogue
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Kenan Cetinkaya
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Swidler, Leonard J.
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Temple University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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480
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Blankinship, Khalid Y.; Gran, Peter; Yazicioglu, Umeyye I.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-49071-8
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Religion
Body granting the degree
Temple University
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2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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After the Second Vatican Council, which took place in 1962-1965, the Catholic Church reached out to both co-religionists and non-Christians. As the second largest religion in the world (after Christianity), the Muslim world began to react to this call for dialogue. Without a worldwide religious authority, Muslim scholars and communities have tried to understand and respond to this call for dialogue in their own way. Turkey, as one of the most influential and modern Muslim majority states, joined the discussion about interreligious dialogue, especially with Christians. Very diverse in culture, religion, and thought, Turkish scholars' discussions and critiques of the dialogue requested by the Christian world have clearly contributed to interreligious dialogue on a global scale in the last decades. This dissertation examines the development of interreligious dialogue in Turkey and the works of prominent and widely recognized Turkish theologians as a response to the Christian call for dialogue. It explores the problems, challenges, and future of the perception of interreligious dialogue in the Turkish context, in particular, the views of three influential Turkish scholars: Abdurrahman Küçük, Mahmut Aydin, and Davut Aydüz. The conclusion proposes the Turkish Model for interreligious dialogue.
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Religion
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Christian-muslim dialogue;Dialogue;Interreligious dialogue;Turkey;Turkish response