Ignatian Spirituality And Interreligious Dialogue Av Michael Barnes

<p>This is a book <em>about </em>dialogue, specifically about the dialogue between religions. But it is also a book formed <em>in </em>dialogue. I seek to bring together the two sides of my experience as an academic teacher and pastoral worker: on the one hand, the extraordinary world of the religions that is such an important feature of contemporary Western culture; on the other, my spiritual formation and religious practice which has acted as the primary motivation for everything that I do as a Jesuit priest. The book can be read both as a practical correlate to what I have written elsewhere on the theology of religions, and, at a more personal level, as a reflection on my experience ¿on the streets¿, as it were. I am guided throughout by the conviction that Christian faith comes truly alive when it is communicated, brought into dialogue with what is ¿other¿, different, even strange. God¿s own story, what God seeks to reveal of God¿s own self through the witness of the Bible, enters