Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility Among Jews, Christians, and Muslims

by Omid Safi and Reuven Firestone

Book Overview

Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. Until the nineteenth century, most dialogue among believers was carried on as a debate aimed either to disprove the claims of the other, or to convert the other to one's own tradition. At the end of the nineteenth century, Protestant Christian missionaries of different denominations had created such a cacophony amongst themselves in the mission fields that they decided that it would...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199769311
• ISBN13: 9780199769315
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"