Seeking Muslim, Christian and Jewish Wisdom in the Fifteenth, Twenty-first and Fifty-eighth centuries: A Muscat Manifesto

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Seeking Muslim, Christian and Jewish Wisdom in the Fifteenth, Twenty-first and Fifty-eighth centuries: A Muscat Manifesto

We are siblings who share a great deal, and we are also very different. We need to be able to find shared ground. But ‘shared ground’ is a static image, and even more important is the spirit that blows over both what we share and what divides us. It is possible for us to face and discuss our differences without resolving them, while at the same time deepening our mutual respect and friendship. I want to suggest that the spirit we most need is one that seeks wisdom above all, the wisdom of the God of wisdom, compassion and blessing.

by Professor David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, at the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque and at the Institute of Shariah Studies in Muscat, Oman. Professor Ford details the development of Wise Theology and Leadership and how to improve inter-faith relations between leaders and members of the Abrahamic tradition.