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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Sidney HarrisonGriffithThe Christian West and the Eastern Patriarchates: Reflections on <i>Nostra Aetate</i> and the World of Islamhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/GY2TYMGHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/GY2TYMGHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/GY2TYMGHKail C.Ellis<i>Nostra Aetate</i>, Non-Christian Religions, and Interfaith RelationsCham, SwitzerlandPalgrave Macmillan2021163-186In November 1963 The Greek Catholic, Melkite Patriarch of Antioch, Maximos IV, spoke to the general assembly of the Second Vatican Council regarding the first draft of a text on the Jews presented to the council fathers by the Secretariat for Christian Unity. The Arabic-speaking patriarch remarked, “If one speaks of the Jews, it is also necessary to speak of the other non-Christian religions, and above all of the Muslims.” Thus did a voice from a church largely unknown in the west call attention to what Philip Jenkins has called the lost history of Christianity. But the history of the eastern churches, and particularly the history of those living among Muslims, is not lost. Rather, it faded from the memory, until recently when the large-scale persecution of Christians in the Middle East became world news. This essay reflects on the cultural and historical factors, which lay behind the west’s amnesia about Arab Christianity. It calls attention to how Arabic-speaking Christian theologians from early Islamic times onward responded to the religious challenge of Islam in Islam’s own Arabic idiom that seems to anticipate the interreligious dialogue that Nostra Aetate promotes.
Griffith, Sidney Harrison. “The Christian West and the Eastern Patriarchates: Reflections on Nostra Aetate and the World of Islam.” In Nostra Aetate, Non-Christian Religions, and Interfaith Relations, edited by Kail C. Ellis, 163–86. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Sidney Harrison Griffith, The Christian West and the Eastern Patriarchates: Reflections on Nostra Aetate and the World of Islam,” in Nostra Aetate, Non-Christian Religions, and Interfaith Relations, ed. Kail C. Ellis (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 163–86.Arab ChristiansMuslim-Christian relationsVII-XVIII CEXIX-XXI CEecumenism