Solidarity: A Marginal Matter for Interreligious Engagement?

2025/09/21 by Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Christian Theology and Mission #Diverse Philosophical and Cultural Studies #Karl Barth and Christian Theology

paper · doi:10.3828/mb.2025.24

openalex publication_date 2025/09/21 · openalex created_date 2026/01/09 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

Can interreligious solidarity help Christians engage with the pressing challenges of our times? Focusing on the ecumenical document Serving a Wounded World in Interreligious Solidarity: A Christian Call to Reflection and Action During COVID-19 and Beyond (WCC and PCID), this essay argues that interreligious solidarity might hold in it the promise for both the transformation our wounded world and the transformation of the method and practice of interreligious dialogue itself.

Discussions

• Greatly appreciating Peniel Rajkumar’s idea of interreligious engagement as a ‘dialogue of the heels’. A commitment to the liberation of the oppressed by the oppressed, on the terms of the oppressed, [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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