Ecumenical and Interreligious Identities in Nigeria: Transformation through Dialogue

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

doi:10.5771/9781978712829

Summary

Dialogue can bring about transformation. That conviction grounds Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke’s argument concerning dialogue between groups and ecumenical and interreligious dialogue in particular. In Ecumenical and Interreligious Identities in Nigeria: Transformation through Dialogue, he examines the fundamental question: What are the additional assets and transformed views which Christian denominations committed to ecumenical dialogue can bring to the table of interreligious dialogue? If Christian dialogue partners, particularly in Nigeria (in this case, Anglicans and Roman Catholics), can change how they perceive one another—moving from antagonism to friendship, division to unity—then they, as ecumenically transformed Christians, can better engage in fruitful and transforming dialogue with the religious other, particularly Muslims. This book addresses (a) the constituents of communal identity and the impact of dialogue on such identity; (b) how the Anglican–Roman Catholic dialogue has (or has not) transformed the communal identities of the dialogue partners, particularly in the local context of Nigeria; (c) the ways in which the perceived advantages of a transformative model of dialogue, shaped by ecumenical encounter and dialogue, can be applied to interreligious encounter and dialogue; and (d) how theological reflection interacts with praxis in promoting transformation through dialogue.

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright Year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1281-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1282-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 392
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Figures No access
  2. Tables No access
4. 1. From Contexts to Contexts: Narrativity and Scholarship No access
  2. Emerging Theological Questions No access
  3. On “Transformation” and “Dialogue” No access
  4. Notes No access
1. A Sociological Approach to Communal Identity No access
2. An Ecclesiological Approach to Communal Identity No access
3. A Trinitarian Approach to Communal Identity No access
4. Navigating the Boundary between “Identity” and “Difference” No access
5. Conclusion: Synthesizing the Preceding Interdisciplinary Insights No access
6. Notes No access
1. Reviewing the History of Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue No access
2. ARCIC II: An Analysis of the Gift of Authority III (1998) No access
3. Ecumenical Dialogue in Nigeria: Between the “Multilateral” and the Bilateral No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Toward an Understanding of Religious Conflict No access
2. Examining the Scope of Interreligious Dialogue in Nigeria and the Potential Impact of Ecumenical Dialogue No access
3. Toward a Common Christian Identity in Interreligious Dialogue No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Trinitarian Relationality for Transformational Dialogue No access
2. Trinitarian Patterning: From Dialogical Orientation to Dialogical Praxis No access
3. Trinitarian-Theological Patterning as the Ground of the Integrated Personalist Approach to Dialogue No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Recapitulating the Theological Argumentative Structure of the Research No access
7. Advancing the Theological Discourse on Dialogue in the Nigerian Context No access
8. Transforming Praxes in Ecumenical and Interreligious Identities in Nigeria No access
9. Epilogue No access
10. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 339 - 358
Bibliography No access Pages 359 - 382
Index No access Pages 383 - 390
About the Author No access Pages 391 - 392