"Like the Jewish community, the Catholic Church fosters marriage in our own faith context," said the Rev. Lawrence Frizzell, director of the Institute of Judeo-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University.
At a practical level, Duke Divinity recognizes the need to prepare students for ministry, teaching, and leadership in multi-cultural and multi-faith contexts, whether in the United States or elsewhere.
Parents told me they wanted their children to be "bilingual" in two religious languages, and to feel positive and self-confident about being part of an interfaith family, rather than tolerated or on the periphery in a single-faith context.
Promising models of peace promotion in the multi-faith context of East Africa will be presented and possibilities of their adoption in various social cultural settings in East Africa will be explored.
"He was a pioneer in the Muslim American community and was one of the first leaders to get Muslims to think about their faith in context of the larger society," said Rami Nashashibi, executive director of Inner-City Muslim AChicagoetwork in Chicago.
It offers the opportunity to reinterpret Christianity in light of scientific knowledge in a multi-cultural, multi-faith global context.
The school encourages students to explore faith in many contexts and cultures.
With many diverse theological perspectives represented here, students find common ground through immersion in Scripture and the church's tradition for addressing the challenges of faith in contemporary contexts.
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In this context faith communities are currently unexplored with regards to service-learning opportunities.
