Interfaith Declarations as Negotiations between Tradition and Change.
This essay examines four major interfaith declarations— Nostra Aetate (1965), Dabru Emet (2000), A Common Word (2007), and the Alexandria Declaration (2002)—as key sites where religious leadership negotiated the tension between tradition and change. Rather than assessing their effectiveness, this st...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ecumenical Studies Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 55 - 82 |
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Winter2026
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