Church and Religious 'Other'

Gerard Mannion is Associate Professor in Theology and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is presently a committee member of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain, member of the American Academy of Religion and was a 2004 Coolidge Fellow at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, USA.

• Introduction: Church and Religious Other: Essays on Truth, Unity and Diversity; Gerard Mannion: The Church and Religious 'Other': Dominus Iesus and the Hermeneutics of Ecclesial Identity in Postmodern Times; John O'Brien: The Quest for a Pakistani Christian Identity; Paul M. Collins: The Quest for Indianness; Ernst Conradie: The Whole Household of God (oikos) in an African Ecclesiological Perspective; Jenny Daggers: The Open Future: Church, Feminism and the Theology of Religions; Phyllis Zagano: Women and Church: Where Do We Go From Here?; Mary McClintock Fulkerson: 'Being Nice' in Church; Steve Summers: The Eucharist: A Meal with Friends?; Mark Chapman: "'By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed": Anglicanism and the Windsor Report'; George Pattison: Church: Law, Community and Witness; Bernard Hoose: Does the Church Need to Change?; David McLoughlin: The Church Theologian and the Kingdom of God an Uneasy Relationship?; Kenneth Wilson: Hoping to Learn: a New Approach to Ecclesiology; Jayne Hoose: Dialogue as Tradition; Nicholas Lash: The Church as a School of Wisdom; Paul D. Murray: Receptive Ecumenism: a New Way Forward; Afterword: Keith Ward: Church: the Distinctive and Definitive Idea of Christianity.

‘The writers are Roman Catholic, Anglican and Methodist Scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States and South Africa. Several have broad international experience. The essays are thought-provoking and open up many areas for students and scholars of ecclesiology to learn how, in the words of Levinas "the others must be let be and not cast in our image".